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: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "restored-index",
"tags": {
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
"deletion_protection": "enabled"
}'
{
"restore_job_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
"index_id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"
}Create an index from a backup
Create an index from a backup.
The restored index inherits the schema of the index the backup was taken from, including its full-text search fields and its embedding configuration (embed / sparse_embed fields, or the semantic_text field of a legacy integrated index created via create-for-model), and the request cannot override it. A backup that carries no schema restores an index whose fields are derived from the source index’s dimension, metric, and vector type, and reported under the reserved _values / _sparse_values names.
For serverless backups, you can optionally set read_capacity so the restored index is created with dedicated read nodes (DRN) instead of defaulting to on-demand capacity.
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4"
curl "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID/create-index" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "restored-index",
"tags": {
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
"deletion_protection": "enabled"
}'
{
"restore_job_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
"index_id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"
}PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="a65ff585-d987-4da5-a622-72e19a6ed5f4"
curl "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID/create-index" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"name": "restored-index",
"tags": {
"tag0": "val0",
"tag1": "val1"
},
"deletion_protection": "enabled"
}'
Authorizations
Headers
Required date-based version header
Path Parameters
The ID of the backup to create an index from.
Body
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, at most 20 per index. Keys must be 80 characters or less and alphanumeric, '_', or '-'. Values must be 120 characters or less and consist of printable ASCII characters or spaces. To unset a key, set the value to be an empty string. null in responses when the index has no tags.
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{ "tag0": "val0", "tag1": "val1" }
Whether deletion protection is enabled/disabled for the index.
Possible values: disabled or enabled.
By default the index will be created with read capacity mode OnDemand. If you prefer to allocate dedicated read nodes for your workload, you must specify mode Dedicated and additional configurations for node_type and scaling. BYOC indexes do not support OnDemand: a byoc deployment must set mode: Dedicated explicitly, since omitting read_capacity defaults to OnDemand and is rejected.
- On-demand
- Dedicated
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{ "mode": "OnDemand" }
Response
The request to create the index has been accepted.
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