Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Deleting an Instance Backup

On Compute Cloud@Customer, you can use the DELETE API to delete exported and imported instance backups.

The API sets the exported backup lifecycle state to TERMINATED and performs one of these actions based on the type of backup:

  • Imported instance backups: Deletes the instance backup.
  • Exported instance backups: Deletes the instance backup (source for importing) from object storage bucket

Terminated instance backups are eventually cleaned up by a background task.

Using the API

DELETE API – Deletes instance backups.

API endpoint


https://<mgmt_node_VIP>:30003/20160918/instancesBackups<instance_backup_OCID>

where:

  • <mgmt_node_VIP> is the management node VIP host name or IP address.

  • <instance_backup_OCID> is the instance backup ID.