Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:
metastore.backups.delete
Query parameters
Parameters
requestId
string
Optional. A request ID. Specify a unique request ID to allow the server to ignore the request if it has completed. The server will ignore subsequent requests that provide a duplicate request ID for at least 60 minutes after the first request.
For example, if an initial request times out, followed by another request with the same request ID, the server ignores the second request to prevent the creation of duplicate commitments.
The request ID must be a valid UUID A zero UUID (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000) is not supported.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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