Backups Automatic And On Demand - List By Server

Service:

PostgreSQL

API Version:

2026-10-01

Lists all available backups of a server.

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/flexibleServers/{serverName}/backups?api-version=2026-10-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
resourceGroupName	path	True	string minLength: 1 maxLength: 90	The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
serverName	path	True	string minLength: 3 maxLength: 63 pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*	The name of the server.
subscriptionId	path	True	string (uuid)	The ID of the target subscription. The value must be an UUID.
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	BackupAutomaticAndOnDemandList	Azure operation completed successfully.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	An unexpected error response.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

List all available backups of a server.

Sample request

HTTP

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff/resourceGroups/exampleresourcegroup/providers/Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/flexibleServers/exampleserver/backups?api-version=2026-10-01

Sample response

Status code:

200

{
  "value": [
    {
      "name": "backup_638830782181266873",
      "type": "Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/flexibleServers/backups",
      "id": "/subscriptions/ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff/resourceGroups/exampleresourcegroup/providers/Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/flexibleServers/exampleserver/backups/backup_638830782181266873",
      "properties": {
        "backupType": "Full",
        "completedTime": "2025-06-01T14:30:22.123456+00:00",
        "source": "Automatic"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "ondemandbackup-20250601T183022",
      "type": "Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/flexibleServers/backups",
      "id": "/subscriptions/ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff/resourceGroups/exampleresourcegroup/providers/Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL/flexibleServers/exampleserver/backups/ondemandbackup-20250601T183022",
      "properties": {
        "backupType": "Customer On-Demand",
        "completedTime": "2025-06-01T18:30:22.123456+00:00",
        "source": "Customer Initiated"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
BackupAutomaticAndOnDemand	Properties of a backup.
BackupAutomaticAndOnDemandList	List of backups.
BackupType	Type of backup.
createdByType	The type of identity that created the resource.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response
systemData	Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

BackupAutomaticAndOnDemand

Object

Properties of a backup.

Name	Type	Description
id	string (arm-id)	Fully qualified resource ID for the resource. E.g. "/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/{resourceProviderNamespace}/{resourceType}/{resourceName}"
name	string	The name of the resource
properties.backupType	BackupType	Type of backup.
properties.completedTime	string (date-time)	Time(ISO8601 format) at which the backup was completed.
properties.source	string	Source of the backup.
systemData	systemData	Azure Resource Manager metadata containing createdBy and modifiedBy information.
type	string	The type of the resource. E.g. "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines" or "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"

BackupAutomaticAndOnDemandList

Object

List of backups.

Name	Type	Description
nextLink	string (uri)	The link to the next page of items
value	BackupAutomaticAndOnDemand[]	The BackupAutomaticAndOnDemand items on this page

BackupType

Enumeration

Type of backup.

Value	Description
Full	A full backup taken automatically by the service. These backups are retained for a period of time as defined by the backup retention policy, and they cannot be deleted by the customer.
Customer On-Demand	A full backup triggered by the customer. These backups are retained for a period of time as defined by the backup retention policy, and they can also be deleted by the customer.

createdByType

Enumeration

The type of identity that created the resource.

Value	Description
User
Application
ManagedIdentity
Key

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

systemData

Object

Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

Name	Type	Description
createdAt	string (date-time)	The timestamp of resource creation (UTC).
createdBy	string	The identity that created the resource.
createdByType	createdByType	The type of identity that created the resource.
lastModifiedAt	string (date-time)	The timestamp of resource last modification (UTC)
lastModifiedBy	string	The identity that last modified the resource.
lastModifiedByType	createdByType	The type of identity that last modified the resource.