---
title: "Delete Failed Backups"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/apps/{name}/backups"
tags: ["backups"]
---

# Delete Failed Backups

`DELETE /api/apps/{name}/backups`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://softkiln.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://softkiln.com/api/apps/{name}/backups`
- Auth: none declared

Bulk-delete every backup_run for the app whose status == 'failed'.

Convenience for clearing noise rows produced while a service was broken.
Failed rows almost never have S3 objects, but we still go through
delete_backup_run so any stragglers get cleaned up.

## Path parameters

- `name` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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