Delete backup

Delete a database backup.

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C++

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

void DeleteBackup(google::cloud::spanner_admin::DatabaseAdminClient client,
                  std::string const& project_id, std::string const& instance_id,
                  std::string const& backup_id) {
  google::cloud::spanner::Backup backup(
      google::cloud::spanner::Instance(project_id, instance_id), backup_id);
  auto status = client.DeleteBackup(backup.FullName());
  if (!status.ok()) throw std::move(status);
  std::cout << "Backup " << backup.FullName() << " was deleted.\n";
}

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.


using Google.Cloud.Spanner.Admin.Database.V1;
using System;

public class DeleteBackupSample
{
    public void DeleteBackup(string projectId, string instanceId, string backupId)
    {
        // Create the DatabaseAdminClient instance.
        DatabaseAdminClient databaseAdminClient = DatabaseAdminClient.Create();

        // Make the DeleteBackup request.
        BackupName backupName = BackupName.FromProjectInstanceBackup(projectId, instanceId, backupId);
        databaseAdminClient.DeleteBackup(backupName);

        Console.WriteLine("Backup deleted successfully.");
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.


import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"regexp"

	database "cloud.google.com/go/spanner/admin/database/apiv1"
	adminpb "cloud.google.com/go/spanner/admin/database/apiv1/databasepb"
)

func deleteBackup(ctx context.Context, w io.Writer, db, backupID string) error {
	adminClient, err := database.NewDatabaseAdminClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer adminClient.Close()

	matches := regexp.MustCompile("^(.*)/databases/(.*)$").FindStringSubmatch(db)
	if matches == nil || len(matches) != 3 {
		return fmt.Errorf("Invalid database id %s", db)
	}
	backupName := matches[1] + "/backups/" + backupID
	// Delete the backup.
	err = adminClient.DeleteBackup(ctx, &adminpb.DeleteBackupRequest{Name: backupName})
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Deleted backup %s\n", backupID)
	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

static void deleteBackup(DatabaseAdminClient dbAdminClient,
    String project, String instance, String backupId) {
  BackupName backupName = BackupName.of(project, instance, backupId);

  // Delete the backup.
  System.out.println("Deleting backup [" + backupId + "]...");
  dbAdminClient.deleteBackup(backupName);
  // Verify that the backup is deleted.
  try {
    dbAdminClient.getBackup(backupName);
  } catch (NotFoundException e) {
    if (e.getStatusCode().getCode() == Code.NOT_FOUND) {
      System.out.println("Deleted backup [" + backupId + "]");
    } else {
      System.out.println("Delete backup [" + backupId + "] failed");
      throw new RuntimeException("Delete backup [" + backupId + "] failed", e);
    }
  }
}

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

use Google\Cloud\Spanner\SpannerClient;

/**
 * Delete a backup.
 * Example:
 * ```
 * delete_backup($instanceId, $backupId);
 * ```
 * @param string $instanceId The Spanner instance ID.
 * @param string $backupId The Spanner backup ID.
 */
function delete_backup(string $instanceId, string $backupId): void
{
    $spanner = new SpannerClient();
    $instance = $spanner->instance($instanceId);
    $backup = $instance->backup($backupId);
    $backupName = $backup->name();
    $backup->delete();
    print("Backup $backupName deleted" . PHP_EOL);
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

def delete_backup(instance_id, backup_id):
    spanner_client = spanner.Client()
    instance = spanner_client.instance(instance_id)
    backup = instance.backup(backup_id)
    backup.reload()

    # Wait for databases that reference this backup to finish optimizing.
    while backup.referencing_databases:
        time.sleep(30)
        backup.reload()

    # Delete the backup.
    backup.delete()

    # Verify that the backup is deleted.
    assert backup.exists() is False
    print("Backup {} has been deleted.".format(backup.name))

Ruby

To learn how to install and use the client library for Spanner, see Spanner client libraries.

To authenticate to Spanner, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

# project_id  = "Your Google Cloud project ID"
# instance_id = "Your Spanner instance ID"
# backup_id = "Your Spanner backup ID"

require "google/cloud/spanner"
require "google/cloud/spanner/admin/database"

database_admin_client = Google::Cloud::Spanner::Admin::Database.database_admin
instance_path = database_admin_client.instance_path project: project_id, instance: instance_id
backup_path = database_admin_client.backup_path project: project_id,
                                                instance: instance_id,
                                                backup: backup_id

database_admin_client.delete_backup name: backup_path
puts "Backup #{backup_id} deleted"

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