Delete Backup

Prerequisites

Before using the backup API, please go through the prerequisites.

Delete backup API

Note that the backup API can be reached via the /actuator management port, which by default is 8092. The configured context path does not apply to the management port.

An existing backup can be deleted using the below API which deletes all Optimize snapshots associated with the supplied backupID.

DELETE actuator/backups/{backupId}

Response

Code	Description
204 No Content	The delete request for the associated snapshots was submitted to Elasticsearch successfully.
400 Bad Request	There is an issue with the request, for example the repository name specified in the Optimize configuration does not exist. Refer to returned error message for details.
500 Server Error	An error occurred, for example the snapshot repository does not exist. Refer to the returned error message for details.
502 Bad Gateway	Optimize has encountered issues while trying to connect to Elasticsearch.

Example request

curl --request DELETE 'http://localhost:8092/actuator/backups/123456'