Method: projects.databases.restore

Creates a new database by restoring from an existing backup.

The new database must be in the same cloud region or multi-region location as the existing backup. This behaves similar to [FirestoreAdmin.CreateDatabase][google.firestore.admin.v1.CreateDatabase] except instead of creating a new empty database, a new database is created with the database type, index configuration, and documents from an existing backup.

The long-running operation can be used to track the progress of the restore, with the Operation's metadata field type being the RestoreDatabaseMetadata. The response type is the Database if the restore was successful. The new database is not readable or writeable until the LRO has completed.

HTTP request

POST https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1/{parent=projects/*}/databases:restore

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

Required. The project to restore the database in. Format is projects/{projectId}.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "databaseId": string,

  // Union field source can be only one of the following:
  "backup": string
  // End of list of possible types for union field source.
}
Fields
databaseId

string

Required. The ID to use for the database, which will become the final component of the database's resource name. This database id must not be associated with an existing database.

This value should be 4-63 characters. Valid characters are /[a-z][0-9]-/ with first character a letter and the last a letter or a number. Must not be UUID-like /[0-9a-f]{8}(-[0-9a-f]{4}){3}-[0-9a-f]{12}/.

"(default)" database id is also valid.

Union field source.

source can be only one of the following:
backup

string

Backup to restore from. Must be from the same project as the parent.

Format is: projects/{projectId}/locations/{location}/backups/{backup}

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/datastore
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.