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  • Cloud Backup 1.0
  • Getting started
    • Get your credentials
    • Send API requests to Cloud Backup
      • Convert cURL examples to run on Windows
    • Authenticate to the Rackspace Cloud
      • Send an authentication request
      • Review the authentication response
      • Configure environment variables
    • Cloud Backup concepts
      • Agent
      • Backup
      • Backup configuration
      • Restore
      • Restore configuration
      • Server setup
    • Create and manage backups
      • Listing all agents for the user
      • Listing agent details
      • Creating a backup configuration
      • Listing all backup configurations for an agent
      • Updating a backup configuration
      • Starting a backup manually
      • Checking backup status
      • Listing activity for an agent
      • Creating a restore configuration
      • Starting a restore operation manually
      • Getting a restore report
      • Deleting a backup configuration
  • General API information
    • Service access endpoints
    • Service version
      • Contract version
      • List API version
    • Request and response types
    • Limits
    • Response codes
    • Role-based access control (RBAC)
      • Assigning roles to account users
      • Roles available for Rackspace Cloud Backup
      • Multiproduct global roles and permissions
      • Resolving conflicts between RBAC multiproduct and product-specific roles
      • RBAC permissions cross-reference to Rackspace Cloud Backup API operations
  • API reference
    • Agent operations
      • List the agent details
      • Enable or disable an agent
      • Enable volume encryption
      • Change the encryption password
      • Delete an agent
      • Migrate a vault
      • Update the agent backup behavior
      • List the agent details by host server ID
    • User operations
      • List all agents for the user
      • Wake up agents
    • Backup configuration operations
      • Create a backup configuration
      • Update a backup configuration
      • List backup configuration details
      • List all backup configurations for the user
      • List all backup configurations for an agent
      • Enable or disable a backup configuration
      • Delete a backup configuration
    • Backup operations
      • Start or stop a backup manually
      • List backup details
      • List completed backups
      • Get a backup report
    • Restore configuration operations
      • Create a restore configuration
      • Update a restore configuration
      • Include or exclude a file in a restore configuration
      • List included or excluded files in a restore configuration
      • Delete a restore configuration
    • Restore operations
      • List the backups available for a restore
      • Start or stop a restore manually
      • List details about a restore
      • Get a restore report
    • Activity operations
      • List all activity for an agent
      • List all activity for a user
  • Release notes
    • API 1.0 updates, September 09, 2015
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, September 02, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, February 14, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, February 05, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, January 10, 2014
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, December 31, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, November 04, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, October 21, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, October 16, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, September 09, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, July 31, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 updates, June 24, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
    • API 1.0 release, March 05, 2013
      • What's new
      • Resolved issues
      • Known issues
  • Service updates
  • Additional resources
  • Disclaimer

Getting started#

Use the following information to learn how to authenticate, send API requests, and complete basic operations by using the Rackspace Cloud Backup API.

For more information about Cloud Backup concepts and API operations, see the API reference.

  • Get your credentials
  • Send API requests to Cloud Backup
  • Authenticate to the Rackspace Cloud
  • Cloud Backup concepts
  • Create and manage backups

To start using the API and run the examples in this section, you need the following items:

  • Rackspace Cloud account. If you don't have one, sign up for a Rackspace Cloud account.
  • Command-line tool or browser client for communicating with the API service.
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