A backup is a static copy of a serverless index that only consumes storage. It is a non-queryable representation of a set of records. You can create a backup of a serverless index, and you can create a new serverless index from a backup. This allows you to restore the index with the same or different configurations.
Backups are stored in the same project, cloud provider, and region as the source index.
You can only restore an index to the same project, cloud provider, and region as the source index.
Backups only include vectors that were in the index at least 15 minutes prior to the backup time. This means that if a vector was inserted into an index and a backup was immediately taken after, the recently inserted vector may not be backed up. More specifically, if a backup is created only a few minutes after the source index was created, the backup may have 0 vectors.
You can only perform operations on backups in the current Pinecone project.