# Create an index from a backup

The restored index inherits the schema of the index the backup was taken from, including its full-text search fields and its integrated embedding configuration, and the request cannot override it. A backup that carries no `schema` restores an index whose fields are derived from the source index's dimension, metric, and vector type, and reported under the reserved `_values` / `_sparse_values` names.

For serverless backups, you can optionally set `read_capacity` so the restored index is created with dedicated read nodes (DRN) instead of defaulting to on-demand capacity.

```bash curl theme={null}
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: 2026-07" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
        "name": "restored-index",
        "tags": {
          "tag0": "val0",
          "tag1": "val1"
        },
        "deletion_protection": "enabled"
      }'
```

`POST /backups/{backup_id}/create-index`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/backups/{backup_id}/create-index \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "name": "example-index",
  "tags": {
    "tag0": "val0",
    "tag1": "val1"
  },
  "deletion_protection": "<string>",
  "read_capacity": {
    "mode": "OnDemand"
  }
}'
```

```json title="202"
{
  "restore_job_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "index_id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Path Parameters

- `backup_id` (path, string, required) — The ID of the backup to create an index from.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header

## Body

- `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, at most 20 per index. Keys must be 80 characters or less and alphanumeric, '\_', or '-'. Values must be 120 characters or less and consist of printable ASCII characters or spaces. To unset a key, set the value to be an empty string. `null` in responses when the index has no tags.
- `deletion_protection` (body, string) — Whether [deletion protection](/guides/manage-data-manage-indexes#configure-deletion-protection) is enabled/disabled for the index. Possible values: `disabled` or `enabled`.
- `read_capacity` (body, object) — By default the index will be created with read capacity mode `OnDemand`. If you prefer to allocate dedicated read nodes for your workload, you must specify mode `Dedicated` and additional configurations for `node_type` and `scaling`. BYOC indexes do not support `OnDemand`: a `byoc` deployment must set `mode: Dedicated` explicitly, since omitting `read_capacity` defaults to `OnDemand` and is reject

## Response

- `202` — The request to create the index has been accepted.
- `400` — Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: missing or invalid API key.
- `402` — Payment required. Organization is on a paid plan and is delinquent on payment.
- `403` — Forbidden. Possible causes: the project's index quota is exhausted, dedicated read capacity is not enabled for the organization, or (when configuring) the index's read capacity is not yet `Ready`.
- `404` — Backup not found.
- `409` — Index of given name already exists.
- `412` — The backup is not in `Ready` status, so it cannot be restored yet.
- `422` — Unprocessable entity. The request body could not be deserialized.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [Create a backup of an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup.md)
- [List backups for all indexes in a project](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-project-backups.md)
- [List backups for an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-index-backups.md)
- [Describe a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-backup.md)
- [Delete a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup.md)
- [List restore jobs](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md)
- [Describe a restore job](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md)
- [List collections](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-collections.md)
- [Create a collection](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-collection.md)
- [Describe a collection](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-collection.md)

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