Azure Backup Backups API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Recovery Services Backup Client Backups API
  version: '2026-11-01'
  description: Open API 2.0 Specs for Azure RecoveryServices Backup service
  x-typespec-generated:
  - emitter: '@azure-tools/typespec-autorest'
servers:
- url: https://management.azure.com
security:
- azure_auth:
  - user_impersonation
tags:
- name: Backups
paths:
  ? /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.RecoveryServices/vaults/{vaultName}/backupFabrics/{fabricName}/protectionContainers/{containerName}/protectedItems/{protectedItemName}/backup
  : post:
      operationId: Backups_Trigger
      tags:
      - Backups
      description: 'Triggers backup for specified backed up item. This is an asynchronous operation. To know the status of the

        operation, call GetProtectedItemOperationResult API.'
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiVersionParameter'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SubscriptionIdParameter'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ResourceGroupNameParameter'
      - name: vaultName
        in: path
        description: The name of the VaultResource
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: fabricName
        in: path
        description: The name of the BackupFabricResource
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: containerName
        in: path
        description: Name of the container whose details need to be fetched.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: protectedItemName
        in: path
        description: Backed up item name whose details are to be fetched.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '202':
          description: The request has been accepted for processing, but processing has not yet completed.
        default:
          description: An unexpected error response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/BackupRequestResource'
        description: resource backup request
        required: true
      summary: Backups trigger
      x-summary-source: derived
components:
  schemas:
    Resource:
      type: object
      title: Resource
      description: Common fields that are returned in the response for all Azure Resource Manager resources
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Fully qualified resource ID for the resource. Ex - /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/{resourceProviderNamespace}/{resourceType}/{resourceName}
          readOnly: true
        name:
          type: string
          description: The name of the resource
          readOnly: true
        type:
          type: string
          description: The type of the resource. E.g. "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines" or "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"
          readOnly: true
        systemData:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/systemData'
          type: object
          description: Azure Resource Manager metadata containing createdBy and modifiedBy information.
          readOnly: true
      x-ms-azure-resource: true
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      title: Error response
      description: Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.).
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorDetail'
          description: The error object.
    BackupRequest:
      type: object
      description: Base class for backup request. Workload-specific backup requests are derived from this class.
      properties:
        objectType:
          type: string
          description: This property will be used as the discriminator for deciding the specific types in the polymorphic chain of types.
      discriminator:
        propertyName: objectType
      required:
      - objectType
    BackupRequestResource:
      type: object
      description: Base class for backup request. Workload-specific backup requests are derived from this class.
      properties:
        location:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Azure.Core.azureLocation'
          description: Resource location.
        tags:
          type: object
          description: Resource tags.
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
        eTag:
          type: string
          description: Optional ETag.
        properties:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/BackupRequest'
          description: BackupRequestResource properties
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Resource'
    Azure.Core.azureLocation:
      type: string
      description: Represents an Azure geography region where supported resource providers live.
    ErrorDetail:
      type: object
      description: Error Detail class which encapsulates Code, Message and Recommendations.
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: Error code.
          readOnly: true
        message:
          type: string
          description: Error Message related to the Code.
          readOnly: true
        recommendations:
          type: array
          description: List of recommendation strings.
          items:
            type: string
          readOnly: true
  parameters:
    ResourceGroupNameParameter:
      name: resourceGroupName
      in: path
      description: The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
      required: true
      x-ms-parameter-location: method
      schema:
        type: string
        maxLength: 90
        minLength: 1
    SubscriptionIdParameter:
      name: subscriptionId
      in: path
      description: The ID of the target subscription.
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
    ApiVersionParameter:
      name: api-version
      in: query
      description: The API version to use for this operation.
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
  securitySchemes:
    azure_auth:
      type: oauth2
      flows:
        implicit:
          scopes:
            user_impersonation: impersonate your user account
          authorizationUrl: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize
      description: Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.