planetscale Backups API
Manage database branch backups, including listing, creating, and retrieving backup details.
Manage database branch backups, including listing, creating, and retrieving backup details.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: PlanetScale Platform Backups API
description: The PlanetScale Platform API provides programmatic access to manage PlanetScale serverless MySQL-compatible databases. It allows developers to create and manage databases, branches, deploy requests, passwords, backups, service tokens, organization members, teams, bouncers, and billing data. The API supports authentication via service tokens and OAuth, enabling integration into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
version: 1.0.0
contact:
name: PlanetScale Support
url: https://support.planetscale.com
termsOfService: https://planetscale.com/legal/tos
license:
name: Proprietary
url: https://planetscale.com/legal/tos
servers:
- url: https://api.planetscale.com/v1
description: PlanetScale Production API
security:
- serviceToken: []
tags:
- name: Backups
description: Manage database branch backups, including listing, creating, and retrieving backup details.
paths:
/organizations/{organization}/databases/{database}/branches/{branch}/backups:
get:
operationId: listBackups
summary: List backups
description: Returns a list of all backups for a specific branch.
tags:
- Backups
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/OrganizationParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/DatabaseParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/BranchParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/PageParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/PerPageParam'
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response with list of backups
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Backup'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
post:
operationId: createBackup
summary: Create a backup
description: Creates a new backup of the specified branch.
tags:
- Backups
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/OrganizationParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/DatabaseParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/BranchParam'
responses:
'201':
description: Backup created successfully
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Backup'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
/organizations/{organization}/databases/{database}/branches/{branch}/backups/{backup_id}:
get:
operationId: getBackup
summary: Get a backup
description: Returns details about a specific backup.
tags:
- Backups
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/OrganizationParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/DatabaseParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/BranchParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/BackupIdParam'
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response with backup details
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Backup'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
delete:
operationId: deleteBackup
summary: Delete a backup
description: Deletes a specific backup.
tags:
- Backups
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/OrganizationParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/DatabaseParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/BranchParam'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/BackupIdParam'
responses:
'204':
description: Backup deleted successfully
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
parameters:
PerPageParam:
name: per_page
in: query
required: false
description: The number of results per page.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
maximum: 100
default: 25
BackupIdParam:
name: backup_id
in: path
required: true
description: The ID of the backup.
schema:
type: string
BranchParam:
name: branch
in: path
required: true
description: The name of the branch.
schema:
type: string
OrganizationParam:
name: organization
in: path
required: true
description: The name of the organization.
schema:
type: string
PageParam:
name: page
in: query
required: false
description: The page number for pagination.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
default: 1
DatabaseParam:
name: database
in: path
required: true
description: The name of the database.
schema:
type: string
responses:
Unauthorized:
description: Authentication failed. The service token or OAuth token is missing, invalid, or lacks the required permissions.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
NotFound:
description: The requested resource was not found.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
schemas:
Backup:
type: object
description: A backup of a database branch.
properties:
id:
type: string
description: The unique identifier of the backup.
name:
type: string
description: The name of the backup.
state:
type: string
description: The current state of the backup.
enum:
- pending
- running
- success
- failed
size:
type: integer
description: The size of the backup in bytes.
created_at:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The timestamp when the backup was created.
updated_at:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The timestamp when the backup was last updated.
completed_at:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The timestamp when the backup completed.
expires_at:
type: string
format: date-time
description: The timestamp when the backup expires.
Error:
type: object
description: An error response from the PlanetScale API.
properties:
code:
type: string
description: A machine-readable error code.
message:
type: string
description: A human-readable error message.
securitySchemes:
serviceToken:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: Authorization
description: Service token authentication. Use the format 'ServiceToken {token_id}:{token_value}' in the Authorization header.
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: OAuth 2.0 bearer token authentication. Obtain tokens via the PlanetScale OAuth authorization code flow.
externalDocs:
description: PlanetScale API Documentation
url: https://planetscale.com/docs/api/reference/getting-started-with-planetscale-api