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Server Actions

Enable and Configure Backups for a Server

Enables and configures the automatic daily backup option for the Server. Enabling automatic backups will increase the price of the Server by 20%. In return, you will get seven slots where Images of type backup can be stored.

Backups are automatically created daily.

post/servers/{id}/actions/enable_backup

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1
  • URL: https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1/servers/{id}/actions/enable_backup
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Path parameters

idinteger required

ID of the Server.

Example:42

ID of the Server.

Response

Request succeeded.

Example response

{
  "action": {
    "id": 42,
    "command": "start_resource",
    "started": "2016-01-30T23:55:00Z",
    "finished": "2016-01-30T23:55:00Z",
    "progress": 100,
    "resources": [
      {
        "id": 42,
        "type": "server"
      }
    ],
    "error": {
      "code": "action_failed",
      "message": "Action failed"
    }
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.