PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4"
curl "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID/create-index" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "restored-index",
"tags": {
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
"deletion_protection": "enabled"
}'
{
"restore_job_id":"e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4",
"index_id":"025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f"
}
Create an index from a backup
Create an index from a backup.
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4"
curl "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID/create-index" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "restored-index",
"tags": {
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
"deletion_protection": "enabled"
}'
{
"restore_job_id":"e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4",
"index_id":"025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f"
}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4"
curl "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID/create-index" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "restored-index",
"tags": {
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
"deletion_protection": "enabled"
}'
{
"restore_job_id":"e9ba8ff8-7948-4cfa-ba43-34227f6d30d4",
"index_id":"025117b3-e683-423c-b2d1-6d30fbe5027f"
}
Authorizations
Headers
Required date-based version header
Path Parameters
The ID of the backup to create an index from.
Body
The desired configuration for the index created from a backup.
The configuration needed to create a Pinecone index from a backup.
The name of the index. Resource name must be 1-45 characters long, start and end with an alphanumeric character, and consist only of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-'.
1 - 45"example-index"
Custom user tags added to an index. Keys must be 80 characters or less. Values must be 120 characters or less. Keys must be alphanumeric, '', or '-'. Values must be alphanumeric, ';', '@', '', '-', '.', '+', or ' '. To unset a key, set the value to be an empty string.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes
{ "tag0": "val0", "tag1": "val1" }
Whether deletion protection is enabled/disabled for the index.
Possible values: disabled or enabled.
Response
The request to create the index has been accepted.
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