Create backup

POST api/servers/{server}/databases/{database}/backups

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Status	Description
interval	integer	required	Must be either of these values: 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 120, 240, 480, 720, 1440 (0 = nightly, the rest is each minute)
type	string	required	The type to use for the backup, possible values: 'dropbox', 'ftp', 'sftp', 'local', 'google-drive' (you will need to link your google or dropbox account in order to use these 2 drivers)
table_exclusions	string	optional	Comma separated string with tables you do not want to come within the backup
locations	string	optional	This is used for google-drive driver to determine which folder backups should be put in
path	string	optional	This is used for local driver to determine which path the backup should be put in
keep_backup_amount	integer	optional	This is used to determine how many backups should be saved

Example request:

curl -X POST "https://ploi.io/api/servers/{server}/databases/{database}/backups" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
   --data '{"interval":10, "type": "dropbox"}'

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 201 CREATED
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "data": {
        "id": 1,
        "type": "dropbox",
        "type_human": "Dropbox",
        "path": null,
        "locations": null,
        "interval": 20,
        "table_exclusions": null,
        "active": null,
        "last_backup_at": null,
        "created_at": "2019-08-07 13:43:20"
    }
}