List backups for all indexes in a project
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
curl -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/backups" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
-H "accept: application/json"{
"data": [
{
"backup_id": "e12269b0-a29b-4af0-9729-c7771dec03e3",
"source_index_id": "bcb5b3c9-903e-4cb6-8b37-a6072aeb874f",
"source_index_name": "docs-example",
"tags": null,
"name": "example-backup",
"description": null,
"status": "Ready",
"cloud": "aws",
"region": "us-east-1",
"dimension": 0,
"record_count": 96,
"namespace_count": 1,
"size_bytes": 86393,
"created_at": "2025-05-14T17:00:45.803146Z"
},
{
"backup_id": "d686451d-1ede-4004-9f72-7d22cc799b6e",
"source_index_id": "b49f27d1-1bf3-49c6-82b5-4ae46f00f0e6",
"source_index_name": "docs-example2",
"tags": null,
"name": "example-backup2",
"description": null,
"status": "Ready",
"cloud": "aws",
"region": "us-east-1",
"dimension": 1024,
"record_count": 50,
"namespace_count": 1,
"size_bytes": 545171,
"created_at": "2025-05-14T17:00:34.814371Z"
},
{
"backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
"source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
"source_index_name": "docs-example3",
"tags": {},
"name": "example-backup3",
"description": "Monthly backup of production index",
"status": "Ready",
"cloud": "aws",
"region": "us-east-1",
"dimension": 1024,
"record_count": 98,
"namespace_count": 3,
"size_bytes": 1069169,
"created_at": "2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z"
}
],
"pagination": null
}GET /backups
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”X-Pinecone-Api-Version(header, string, required) — Required date-based version headerlimit(query, integer) — The number of results to return per page.paginationToken(query, string) — The token to use to retrieve the next page of results.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”200— This operation returns a list of all the backups for the given index that you have previously created.401— Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.500— Internal server error.