Method: projects.instances.backups.patch

Updates a pending or completed Backup.

HTTP request


The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
backup.name

string

Output only for the backups.create operation. Required for the backups.patch operation.

A globally unique identifier for the backup which cannot be changed. Values are of the form projects/<project>/instances/<instance>/backups/[a-z][a-z0-9_\-]*[a-z0-9] The final segment of the name must be between 2 and 60 characters in length.

The backup is stored in the location(s) specified in the instance configuration of the instance containing the backup, identified by the prefix of the backup name of the form projects/<project>/instances/<instance>.

Query parameters

Parameters
updateMask

string (FieldMask format)

Required. A mask specifying which fields (for example, expireTime) in the backup resource should be updated. This mask is relative to the backup resource, not to the request message. The field mask must always be specified; this prevents any future fields from being erased accidentally by clients that do not know about them.

This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example: "user.displayName,photo".

Request body

The request body contains an instance of Backup.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Backup.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.admin
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • spanner.backups.update

For more information, see the IAM documentation.