Managed Databases

Create backup

Start an on-demand backup — a base backup for PostgreSQL, an RDB snapshot for Valkey. The backup runs asynchronously; poll the list until its status is completed.

post/api/v1/databases/{database_id}/backups

Path parameters

database_idstring required

Database ID (UUID) or short id (the database_id field, e.g. a1b2c3d4)

Response

Backup started (status running)

successboolean

Changes