HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.2 Administrator Guide

Only users with roles of Infrastructure or Backup Administrator have permission to create a backup.
Only an Infrastructure Administrator may restore a backup.
3.2.2 Backup REST API overview
The backup REST API provides REST calls to:
• request a backup
• check the backup status
• download the completed backup
• cancel a backup
These calls are summarized in the table below. The backup REST API calls require a session ID for
authorization you obtain by issuing the REST request to log in to the appliance as a user with the
role of Backup or Infrastructure Administrator.
DescriptionResponse body
Response
headers
Request
bodyRequest headersREST call
Request the
appliance to
A task resource which
contains a URI for
N.A.N.A.auth: session ID,
accept-language:
POST
https://{appl}/rest/backups/
take a
backup
checking the backup
status and an
locale,
accept-content:
associatedResourceUriapplication/json,
X-API-Version: 1 for getting detailed
information about the
backup
Get backup
status
A task resource which
contains the current
backup status
N.A.N.A.auth: session ID,
accept-language:
locale,
GET https://{appl}/{uri}
accept-content:
application/json,
X-API-Version: 1
Get detailed
information
A backup resource
which contains detailed
N.A.N.A.auth: session ID,
accept-language:
GET https://{appl}/
{associatedResourceUri}
about theinformation about alocale,
requestedbackup including theaccept-content:
backupdownloadUri for
downloading the backup
application/json,
X-API-Version: 1 including the
download URI
Download a
backup
The backup file contentcontent-disposition:
the backup file
name
N.A.auth: session ID,
accept-language:
locale,
GET
https://{appl}/{downloadUri}
accept-content:
application/
octet-stream;
q=0.8,
application/json,
X-API-Version: 1
Get detailed
information
A
SimplePaginatedCollection
N.A.N.A.auth: session ID,
accept-language:
GET
https://{appl}/rest/backups
about the last
backup
which contains the last
backup resource
locale,
accept-content:
application/json,
X-API-Version: 1
Cancel a
backup
A task resource which
contains a URI for
N.A.N.A.auth: session ID,
accept-language:
DELETE https://{appl}/
{associatedResourceUri}
checking the backup
status
locale,
accept-content:
application/json,
X-API-Version: 1
14 Backing up and restoring your appliance