# Back up an index

## Create a backup

You can [create a backup from a serverless index](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup) as follows.

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
from pinecone import Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

backup = pc.create_backup(
    index_name="docs-example", 
    backup_name="example-backup", 
    description="Monthly backup of production index"
)

print(backup)
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })

const backup = await pc.createBackup({
  indexName: 'docs-example',
  name: 'example-backup',
  description: 'Monthly backup of production index',
});

console.log(backup);
```

```java Java theme={null}
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.ApiException;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.model.*;

public class CreateBackup {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();

        String indexName = "docs-example";
        String backupName = "example-backup";
        String backupDescription = "Monthly backup of production index";

        BackupModel backup = pc.createBackup(indexName,backupName, backupDescription);

        System.out.println(backup);
    }
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
package main

import (
    "context"
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v4/pinecone"
)

func prettifyStruct(obj interface{}) string {
    bytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent(obj, "", "  ")
    return string(bytes)
}

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()

    pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
        ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
    }

    indexName := "docs-example"
    backupName := "example-backup"
    backupDesc := "Monthly backup of production index"

    backup, err := pc.CreateBackup(ctx, &pinecone.CreateBackupParams{
        IndexName:   indexName,
        Name:        &backupName,
        Description: &backupDesc,
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to create backup: %v", err)
    }

    fmt.Printf(prettifyStruct(backup))
}
```

```bash curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
INDEX_NAME="docs-example"

curl "https://api.pinecone.io/indexes/$INDEX_NAME/backups" \
    -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
    -H 'accept: application/json' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
    -d '{
      "name": "example-backup", 
      "description": "Monthly backup of production index"
      }'
```
:::

The example returns a response like the following:

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
{'backup_id': '8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71',
 'cloud': 'aws',
 'created_at': '2025-05-15T00:52:10.809305882Z',
 'description': 'Monthly backup of production index',
 'dimension': 1024,
 'name': 'example-backup',
 'namespace_count': 3,
 'record_count': 98,
 'region': 'us-east-1',
 'size_bytes': 1069169,
 'source_index_id': 'f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74',
 'source_index_name': 'docs-example',
 'status': 'Ready',
 'tags': {}}
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
{
  backupId: '8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71',
  sourceIndexName: 'docs-example',
  sourceIndexId: 'f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74',
  name: 'example-backup',
  description: 'Monthly backup of production index',
  status: 'Ready',
  cloud: 'aws',
  region: 'us-east-1',
  dimension: 1024,
  metric: undefined,
  recordCount: 98,
  namespaceCount: 3,
  sizeBytes: 1069169,
  tags: {},
  createdAt: '2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z'
}
```

```java Java theme={null}
class BackupModel {
    backupId: 0d75b99f-be61-4a93-905e-77201286c02e
    sourceIndexName: docs-example
    sourceIndexId: f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74
    name: example-backup
    description: Monthly backup of production index
    status: Initializing
    cloud: aws
    region: us-east-1
    dimension: null
    metric: null
    recordCount: null
    namespaceCount: null
    sizeBytes: null
    tags: {}
    createdAt: 2025-05-16T19:42:23.804787550Z
    additionalProperties: null
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
{
  "backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
  "cloud": "aws",
  "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809305882Z",
  "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
  "dimension": 1024,
  "name": "example-backup",
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
  "source_index_name": "docs-example",
  "status": "Initializing",
  "tags": {}
}
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
  "backup_id":"8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
  "source_index_id":"f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
  "source_index_name":"docs-example",
  "tags":{},
  "name":"example-backup",
  "description":"Monthly backup of production index",
  "status":"Ready",
  "cloud":"aws",
  "region":"us-east-1",
  "schema":{
    "fields":{
      "embedding":{
        "type":"dense_vector",
        "description":null,
        "dimension":1024,
        "metric":"cosine"
      }
    }
  },
  "record_count":96,
  "namespace_count":3,
  "size_bytes":1069169,
  "created_at":"2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z"
  }
```
:::

:::callout{intent="tip"}
You can create a backup using the [Pinecone console](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects/-/backups).
:::

## Describe a backup

You can [view the details of a backup](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-backup) as follows.

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
from pinecone import Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

backup = pc.describe_backup(backup_id="8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71")

print(backup)
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })

const backupDesc = await pc.describeBackup('8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71');

console.log(backupDesc);
```

```java Java theme={null}
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.ApiException;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.model.*;

public class CreateBackup {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();

        BackupModel backupModel = pc.describeBackup("8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71");

        System.out.println(backupModel);
    }
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v4/pinecone"
)

func prettifyStruct(obj interface{}) string {
	bytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent(obj, "", "  ")
	return string(bytes)
}

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
		ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
	}

	backup, err := pc.DescribeBackup(ctx, "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to describe backup: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Printf(prettifyStruct(backup))
}
```

```bash curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71"

curl -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID" \
    -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
    -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
    -H "accept: application/json"
```
:::

The example returns a response like the following:

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
{'backup_id': '8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71',
 'cloud': 'aws',
 'created_at': '2025-05-15T00:52:10.809354Z',
 'description': 'Monthly backup of production index',
 'dimension': 1024,
 'name': 'example-backup',
 'namespace_count': 3,
 'record_count': 98,
 'region': 'us-east-1',
 'size_bytes': 1069169,
 'source_index_id': 'f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74',
 'source_index_name': 'docs-example',
 'status': 'Ready',
 'tags': {}}
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
{
  backupId: '8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71',
  sourceIndexName: 'docs-example',
  sourceIndexId: 'f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74',
  name: 'example-backup',
  description: 'Monthly backup of production index',
  status: 'Ready',
  cloud: 'aws',
  region: 'us-east-1',
  dimension: 1024,
  metric: undefined,
  recordCount: 98,
  namespaceCount: 3,
  sizeBytes: 1069169,
  tags: {},
  createdAt: '2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z'
}
```

```java Java theme={null}
class BackupList {
    data: [class BackupModel {
        backupId: 95707edb-e482-49cf-b5a5-312219a51a97
        sourceIndexName: docs-example
        sourceIndexId: f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74
        name: example-backup
        description: Monthly backup of production index
        status: Initializing
        cloud: aws
        region: us-east-1
        dimension: null
        metric: null
        recordCount: null
        namespaceCount: null
        sizeBytes: null
        tags: {}
        createdAt: 2025-05-16T19:46:26.248428Z
        additionalProperties: null
    }]
    pagination: null
    additionalProperties: null
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
{
  "backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
  "cloud": "aws",
  "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809354Z",
  "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
  "dimension": 1024,
  "name": "example-backup",
  "namespace_count": 3,
  "record_count": 98,
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "size_bytes": 1069169,
  "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
  "source_index_name": "docs-example",
  "status": "Ready",
  "tags": {}
}
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
  "backup_id":"8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
  "source_index_id":"f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
  "source_index_name":"docs-example",
  "tags":{},
  "name":"example-backup",
  "description":"Monthly backup of production index",
  "status":"Ready",
  "cloud":"aws",
  "region":"us-east-1",
  "schema":{
    "fields":{
      "embedding":{
        "type":"dense_vector",
        "description":null,
        "dimension":1024,
        "metric":"cosine"
      }
    }
  },
  "record_count":98,
  "namespace_count":3,
  "size_bytes":1069169,
  "created_at":"2025-03-11T18:29:50.549505Z"
}
```
:::

:::callout{intent="tip"}
You can view backup details using the [Pinecone console](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects-/backups).
:::

## List backups for an index

You can [list backups for a specific index](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-index-backups) as follows.

Up to 100 backups are returned at a time by default, in sorted order (bitwise “C” collation). If the `limit` parameter is set, up to that number of backups are returned instead. Whenever there are additional backups to return, the response also includes a `pagination_token` that you can use to get the next batch of backups. When the response doesn't include a `pagination_token`, there are no more backups to return.

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
from pinecone import Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

index_backups = pc.list_backups(index_name="docs-example")

print(index_backups)
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })

const indexBackups = await pc.listBackups({ indexName: 'docs-example' });

console.log(indexBackups);
```

```java Java theme={null}
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.ApiException;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.model.*;

public class CreateBackup {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();

        String indexName = "docs-example";
        BackupList indexBackupList = pc.listIndexBackups(indexName);

        System.out.println(indexBackupList);
    }
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v4/pinecone"
)

func prettifyStruct(obj interface{}) string {
	bytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent(obj, "", "  ")
	return string(bytes)
}

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
		ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
	}

	indexName := "docs-example"
	limit := 2
	indexBackups, err := pc.ListBackups(ctx, &pinecone.ListBackupsParams{
		Limit: &limit,
		IndexName: &indexName,
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to list backups: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Printf(prettifyStruct(indexBackups))
}
```

```bash curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
INDEX_NAME="docs-example"

curl -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/indexes/$INDEX_NAME/backups" \
    -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
    -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
    -H "accept: application/json"
```
:::

The example returns a response like the following:

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
[{
    "backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
    "source_index_name": "docs-example",
    "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
    "status": "Ready",
    "cloud": "aws",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "tags": {},
    "name": "example-backup",
    "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
    "dimension": 1024,
    "record_count": 98,
    "namespace_count": 3,
    "size_bytes": 1069169,
    "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809305882Z"
}]
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
{
  data: [
    {
      backupId: '8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71',
      sourceIndexName: 'docs-example',
      sourceIndexId: 'f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74',
      name: 'example-backup',
      description: 'Monthly backup of production index',
      status: 'Ready',
      cloud: 'aws',
      region: 'us-east-1',
      dimension: 1024,
      metric: undefined,
      recordCount: 98,
      namespaceCount: 3,
      sizeBytes: 1069169,
      tags: {},
      createdAt: '2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z'
    }
  ],
  pagination: undefined
}
```

```java Java theme={null}
class BackupList {
    data: [class BackupModel {
        backupId: 8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71
        sourceIndexName: docs-example
        sourceIndexId: f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74
        name: example-backup
        description: Monthly backup of production index
        status: Initializing
        cloud: aws
        region: us-east-1
        dimension: null
        metric: null
        recordCount: null
        namespaceCount: null
        sizeBytes: null
        tags: {}
        createdAt: 2025-05-16T19:46:26.248428Z
        additionalProperties: null
    }]
    pagination: null
    additionalProperties: null
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
{
  "data": [
    {
      "backup_id": "bf2cda5d-b233-4a0a-aae9-b592780ad3ff",
      "cloud": "aws",
      "created_at": "2025-05-16T18:01:51.531129Z",
      "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
      "dimension": 0,
      "name": "example-backup",
      "namespace_count": 1,
      "record_count": 96,
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "size_bytes": 86393,
      "source_index_id": "bcb5b3c9-903e-4cb6-8b37-a6072aeb874f",
      "source_index_name": "docs-example",
      "status": "Ready",
      "tags": {}
    },
    {
      "backup_id": "e12269b0-a29b-4af0-9729-c7771dec03e3",
      "cloud": "aws",
      "created_at": "2025-05-14T17:00:45.803146Z",
      "dimension": 0,
      "name": "example-backup2",
      "namespace_count": 1,
      "record_count": 96,
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "size_bytes": 86393,
      "source_index_id": "bcb5b3c9-903e-4cb6-8b37-a6072aeb874f",
      "source_index_name": "docs-example",
      "status": "Ready"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "next": "eyJsaW1pdCI6Miwib2Zmc2V0IjoyfQ=="
  }
}
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
  "data":
  [
    {
      "backup_id":"9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da",
      "source_index_id":"8433941a-dae7-43b5-ac2c-d3dab4a56b2b",
      "source_index_name":"docs-example",
      "tags":{},
      "name":"example-backup",
      "description":"Monthly backup of production index",
      "status":"Pending",
      "cloud":"aws",
      "region":"us-east-1",
      "schema":{
        "fields":{
          "embedding":{
            "type":"dense_vector",
            "description":null,
            "dimension":1024,
            "metric":"cosine"
          }
        }
      },
      "record_count":98,
      "namespace_count":3,
      "size_bytes":1069169,
      "created_at":"2025-03-11T18:29:50.549505Z"
      }
    ],
  "pagination":null
}
```
:::

:::callout{intent="tip"}
You can view the backups for a specific index from either the [Backups](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects/-/backups) tab or the [Indexes](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects/-/indexes) tab in the Pinecone console.
:::

## List backups in a project

You can [list backups for all indexes in a project](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-project-backups) as follows.

Up to 100 backups are returned at a time by default, in sorted order (bitwise “C” collation). If the `limit` parameter is set, up to that number of backups are returned instead. Whenever there are additional backups to return, the response also includes a `pagination_token` that you can use to get the next batch of backups. When the response doesn't include a `pagination_token`, there are no more backups to return.

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
from pinecone import Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

project_backups = pc.list_backups()

print(project_backups)
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })

const projectBackups = await pc.listBackups();

console.log(projectBackups);
```

```java Java theme={null}
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.ApiException;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.model.*;

public class CreateBackup {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();

        String indexName = "docs-example";
        BackupList projectBackupList = pc.listProjectBackups();

        System.out.println(projectBackupList);
    }
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v4/pinecone"
)

func prettifyStruct(obj interface{}) string {
	bytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent(obj, "", "  ")
	return string(bytes)
}

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
		ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
	}

	limit := 3
	backups, err := pc.ListBackups(ctx, &pinecone.ListBackupsParams{
		Limit:     &limit,
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to list backups: %v", err)
	}
	fmt.Printf(prettifyStruct(backups))
}
```

```bash curl theme={null}
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: 2026-07" \
    -H "accept: application/json"
```
:::

The example returns a response like the following:

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
[{
    "backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
    "source_index_name": "docs-example",
    "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
    "status": "Ready",
    "cloud": "aws",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "tags": {},
    "name": "example-backup",
    "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
    "dimension": 1024,
    "record_count": 98,
    "namespace_count": 3,
    "size_bytes": 1069169,
    "created_at": "2025-05-15T20:26:21.248515Z"
}, {
    "backup_id": "95707edb-e482-49cf-b5a5-312219a51a97",
    "source_index_name": "docs-example2",
    "source_index_id": "b49f27d1-1bf3-49c6-82b5-4ae46f00f0e6",
    "status": "Ready",
    "cloud": "aws",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "tags": {},
    "name": "example-backup2",
    "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
    "dimension": 1024,
    "record_count": 97,
    "namespace_count": 2,
    "size_bytes": 1069169,
    "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809354Z"
}, {
    "backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
    "source_index_name": "docs-example3",
    "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
    "status": "Ready",
    "cloud": "aws",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "tags": {},
    "name": "example-backup3",
    "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
    "dimension": 1024,
    "record_count": 98,
    "namespace_count": 3,
    "size_bytes": 1069169,
    "created_at": "2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z"
}]
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
{
  data: [
    {
      backupId: 'e12269b0-a29b-4af0-9729-c7771dec03e3',
      sourceIndexName: 'docs-example',
      sourceIndexId: 'bcb5b3c9-903e-4cb6-8b37-a6072aeb874f',
      name: 'example-backup',
      description: undefined,
      status: 'Ready',
      cloud: 'aws',
      region: 'us-east-1',
      dimension: 0,
      metric: undefined,
      recordCount: 96,
      namespaceCount: 1,
      sizeBytes: 86393,
      tags: undefined,
      createdAt: '2025-05-14T17:00:45.803146Z'
    },
    {
      backupId: 'd686451d-1ede-4004-9f72-7d22cc799b6e',
      sourceIndexName: 'docs-example2',
      sourceIndexId: 'b49f27d1-1bf3-49c6-82b5-4ae46f00f0e6',
      name: 'example-backup2',
      description: undefined,
      status: 'Ready',
      cloud: 'aws',
      region: 'us-east-1',
      dimension: 1024,
      metric: undefined,
      recordCount: 50,
      namespaceCount: 1,
      sizeBytes: 545171,
      tags: undefined,
      createdAt: '2025-05-14T17:00:34.814371Z'
    },
    {
      backupId: '8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71',
      sourceIndexName: 'docs-example3',
      sourceIndexId: 'f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74',
      name: 'example-backup3',
      description: 'Monthly backup of production index',
      status: 'Ready',
      cloud: 'aws',
      region: 'us-east-1',
      dimension: 1024,
      metric: undefined,
      recordCount: 98,
      namespaceCount: 3,
      sizeBytes: 1069169,
      tags: {},
      createdAt: '2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z'
    }
  ],
  pagination: undefined
}
```

```java Java theme={null}
class BackupList {
    data: [class BackupModel {
        backupId: 13761d20-7a0b-4778-ac27-36dd91c4be43
        sourceIndexName: example-dense-index
        sourceIndexId: f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74
        name: example-backup
        description: Monthly backup of production index
        status: Initializing
        cloud: aws
        region: us-east-1
        dimension: null
        metric: null
        recordCount: null
        namespaceCount: null
        sizeBytes: null
        tags: {}
        createdAt: 2025-05-16T19:46:26.248428Z
        additionalProperties: null
    }, class BackupModel {
        backupId: 0d75b99f-be61-4a93-905e-77201286c02e
        sourceIndexName: example-dense-index
        sourceIndexId: f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74
        name: example-backup2
        description: Monthly backup of production index
        status: Initializing
        cloud: aws
        region: us-east-1
        dimension: null
        metric: null
        recordCount: null
        namespaceCount: null
        sizeBytes: null
        tags: {}
        createdAt: 2025-05-16T19:42:23.804820Z
        additionalProperties: null
    }, class BackupModel {
        backupId: bf2cda5d-b233-4a0a-aae9-b592780ad3ff
        sourceIndexName: example-sparse-index
        sourceIndexId: bcb5b3c9-903e-4cb6-8b37-a6072aeb874f
        name: example-backup3
        description: Monthly backup of production index
        status: Ready
        cloud: aws
        region: us-east-1
        dimension: 0
        metric: null
        recordCount: 96
        namespaceCount: 1
        sizeBytes: 86393
        tags: {}
        createdAt: 2025-05-16T18:01:51.531129Z
        additionalProperties: null
    }]
    pagination: null
    additionalProperties: null
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
{
  "data": [
    {
      "backup_id": "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71",
      "cloud": "aws",
      "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809305882Z",
      "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
      "dimension": 1024,
      "name": "example-backup",
      "namespace_count": 3,
      "record_count": 98,
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "size_bytes": 1069169,
      "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
      "source_index_name": "docs-example",
      "status": "Ready",
      "tags": {}
    },
    {
      "backup_id": "bf2cda5d-b233-4a0a-aae9-b592780ad3ff",
      "cloud": "aws",
      "created_at": "2025-05-15T00:52:10.809305882Z",
      "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
      "dimension": 0,
      "name": "example-backup2",
      "namespace_count": 1,
      "record_count": 96,
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "size_bytes": 86393,
      "source_index_id": "bcb5b3c9-903e-4cb6-8b37-a6072aeb874f",
      "source_index_name": "example-sparse-index",
      "status": "Ready",
      "tags": {}
    },
    {
      "backup_id": "f73028f6-1746-410e-ab6d-9dd2519df4de",
      "cloud": "aws",
      "created_at": "2025-05-15T20:26:21.248515Z",
      "description": "Monthly backup of production index",
      "dimension": 1024,
      "name": "example-backup3",
      "namespace_count": 2,
      "record_count": 97,
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "size_bytes": 1069169,
      "source_index_id": "f73b36c9-faf5-4a2c-b1d6-4013d8b1cc74",
      "source_index_name": "example-dense-index",
      "status": "Ready",
      "tags": {}
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "next": "eyJsaW1pdCI6Miwib2Zmc2V0IjoyfQ=="
  }  
}
```

```json curl  theme={null}
{
  "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",
      "schema": {
        "fields": {
          "sparse_embedding": {
            "type": "sparse_vector",
            "description": null
          }
        }
      },
      "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",
      "schema": {
        "fields": {
          "embedding": {
            "type": "dense_vector",
            "description": null,
            "dimension": 1024,
            "metric": "cosine"
          }
        }
      },
      "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",
      "schema": {
        "fields": {
          "embedding": {
            "type": "dense_vector",
            "description": null,
            "dimension": 1024,
            "metric": "cosine"
          }
        }
      },
      "record_count": 98,
      "namespace_count": 3,
      "size_bytes": 1069169,
      "created_at": "2025-05-14T16:37:25.625540Z"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": null
}
```
:::

:::callout{intent="tip"}
You can view all backups in a project using the [Pinecone console](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects-/backups).
:::

## Delete a backup

You can [delete a backup](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup) as follows.

:::code-group
```python Python theme={null}
from pinecone import Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

pc.delete_backup(backup_id="9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da")
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })

await pc.deleteBackup('9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da');
```

```java Java theme={null}
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.ApiException;
import org.openapitools.db_control.client.model.*;

public class CreateBackup {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();

        pc.deleteBackup("9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da");
    }
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v4/pinecone"
)

func prettifyStruct(obj interface{}) string {
	bytes, _ := json.MarshalIndent(obj, "", "  ")
	return string(bytes)
}

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()

	pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
		ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
	}

	err = pc.DeleteBackup(ctx, "8c85e612-ed1c-4f97-9f8c-8194e07bcf71")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to delete backup: %v", err)
	} else {
		fmt.Println("Backup deleted successfully")
	}
}
```

```bash curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da"

curl -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID" \
    -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
    -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07"
```
:::

:::callout{intent="tip"}
You can delete a backup using the [Pinecone console](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects-/backups).
:::

## Schedule automated backups

Instead of creating backups manually, you can define a recurring schedule that automatically creates backups at a daily, weekly, or monthly frequency. Each schedule includes a retention policy that automatically deletes old backups, keeping storage costs predictable. Each index supports one active schedule at a time.

### Create a backup schedule

:::::tabs
:::tab{title="Pinecone console"}
1. Open the [Pinecone console](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects/-/backups) and go to the **Backups** tab.
2. Find your index and, in the **Schedule** column, click **add**. Alternatively, select **Schedule backups** from the actions menu of the index.
3. In the **Add a backup schedule** modal, select a **Frequency** (daily, weekly, or monthly).
4. Select a **Retention** period. Each backup created by the schedule is automatically deleted after this period.
5. Click **Add schedule**.

Pinecone names the schedule and assigns its run time automatically.
:::

::::tab{title="API"}
:::callout{intent="note"}
Scheduled backups require [API version](/guides/apis-versioning) `2026-04` or later.
:::

To [create a backup schedule](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup-schedule):

```bash curl theme={null}
curl -sS -X POST "https://api.pinecone.io/indexes/${INDEX_NAME}/backup-schedules" \
  -H "api-key: ${PINECONE_API_KEY}" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "my-nightly-backup",
    "schedule": {
      "type": "time-based",
      "frequency": "daily"
    },
    "retention": {
      "expire_after_days": 7
    }
  }'
```

Use `"frequency": "weekly"` or `"monthly"` as needed. The retention policy (`expire_after_days`) is required.
::::
:::::

### Manage backup schedules

:::::tabs
:::tab{title="Pinecone console"}
1. Open the [Pinecone console](https://app.pinecone.io/organizations/-/projects/-/backups) and go to the **Backups** tab.
2. Find your index and, in the **Schedule** column, click the schedule. This opens the **Scheduled backups** page for the index.

For each schedule, the page shows the frequency, retention period, and next scheduled run time. From here, you can:

- **Pause or resume a schedule**: Use the toggle on the schedule. An index can have up to three schedules, but only one can be enabled at a time.
- **Edit a schedule**: Expand the schedule, change the **Frequency** or **Retention**, and click **Update**.
- **Delete a schedule**: Select **Delete** from the actions menu of the schedule.
:::

::::tab{title="API"}
:::callout{intent="note"}
Scheduled backups require [API version](/guides/apis-versioning) `2026-04` or later.
:::

You can [list schedules](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-backup-schedules), [update a schedule](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-update-backup-schedule) (e.g., to pause it or change the frequency), [delete a schedule](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup-schedule), and [view the backup history](/guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-backup-schedule-history) for a schedule.
::::
:::::

Deleting a schedule doesn't delete any backups that were previously created by it. For more details, see [Scheduled backups](/guides/manage-data-backups-overview#scheduled-backups).

## Related pages

- [Backups overview](./manage-data-backups-overview.md)
- [Restore an index](./manage-data-restore-an-index.md)

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