Create an index from a backup

PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4"

curl "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID/create-index" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
        "name": "restored-index",
        "tags": {
          "tag0": "val0",
          "tag1": "val1"
        },
        "deletion_protection": "enabled"
      }'

{
    "restore_job_id":"e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4",
    "index_id":"025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f"
}

POST /backups/{backup_id}/create-index

• X-Pinecone-Api-Version (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header
• backup_id (path, string, required) — The ID of the backup to create an index from.

• name (body, string, required) — The name of the index. Resource name must be 1-45 characters long, start and end with an alphanumeric character, and consist only of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-'.
• tags (body, object) — Custom user tags added to an index. Keys must be 80 characters or less. Values must be 120 characters or less. Keys must be alphanumeric, '', or '-'. Values must be alphanumeric, ';', '@', '', '-', '.', '+', or ' '. To unset a key, set the value to be an empty string.
• deletion_protection (body, string) — Whether deletion protection is enabled/disabled for the index. Possible values: disabled or enabled.

• 202 — The request to create the index has been accepted.
• 400 — Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
• 401 — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
• 402 — Payment required. Organization is on a paid plan and is delinquent on payment.
• 403 — You've exceed your pod quota.
• 404 — Backup not found.
• 409 — Index of given name already exists.
• 422 — Unprocessable entity. The request body could not be deserialized.
• 500 — Internal server error.