Physical Backup Examples

Authentication

Go to the MariaDB Cloud API Key management page and generate an API key. Export the value from the token field to an environment variable $API_KEYexport API_KEY='... key data ...'

Use it on subsequent request, e.g: bash curl --request

GET 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups/schedules' \
    --header "X-API-Key: ${API_KEY}"

Full Physical Backup Scheduling

One-Time Full Physical Backup Example

curl --location 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups/schedules' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --header 'X-API-Key: $API_KEY' \
      --data '{
       "backup_type": "full",
       "schedule": "once",
       "service_id": "$SERVICE_ID"
     }'"

• API_KEY : SKYSQL API KEY, see MariaDB Cloud API Keys

• SERVICE_ID : MariaDB Cloud service identifier, format dbtxxxxxx. You can fetch the service ID from the Fully qualified domain name(FQDN) of your service. E.g: in dbpgf17106534.sysp0000.db2.skysql.com, 'dbpgf17106534' is the service ID.You will find the FQDN in the Connect window

Cron Full Physical Example

    curl --location 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups/schedules' \
         --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         --header 'X-API-Key: $API_KEY' \
         --data '{
           "backup_type": "full",
           "schedule": "0 3 * * *",
           "service_id": "$SERVICE_ID"
         }'"

• API_KEY : SKYSQL API KEY, see MariaDB Cloud API Keys

• SCHEDULE : Cron schedule, see Cron

• SERVICE_ID : MariaDB Cloud service identifier, format dbtxxxxxx

Backup status can be fetched using 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups'. See the 'Backup Status' section for an example.