Required. The backup's project and location, in the format projects/{projectNumber}/locations/{location}. In Filestore, backup locations map to Google Cloud regions, for example us-west1.
Query parameters
Parameters
backupId
string
Required. The ID to use for the backup. The ID must be unique within the specified project and location.
This value must start with a lowercase letter followed by up to 62 lowercase letters, numbers, or hyphens, and cannot end with a hyphen. Values that do not match this pattern will trigger an INVALID_ARGUMENT error.
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