How to find the latest backup via REST API?

Hi Amos,

There is no special REST API request. The full backup name is returned by REST API request which triggers backup. So you can save and then use it.
Also you can find the latest created file in the <TeamCity Data Directory>/backup folder.

alina.mishina wrote:

Hi Amos,

There is no special REST API request. The full backup name is returned by REST API request which triggers backup. So you can save and then use it.
Also you can find the latest created file in the <TeamCity Data Directory>/backup folder.

That's not correct.

Here is the output I get from triggering the backup:

--2015-01-08 17:37:05--  https://teamcity/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?includeConfigs=true&includeDatabase=false&includeBuildLogs=true&filename=amostest
  HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
  Cache-Control: no-cache
  Cache-Control: no-store
  Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
  Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:37:12 GMT
  Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
  Pragma: no-cache
  Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
  WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="TeamCity"
  transfer-encoding: chunked
  Connection: Close
Reusing existing connection to teamcity:443.

--2015-01-08 17:37:06--  (try: 2)  https://teamcity/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?includeConfigs=true&includeDatabase=false&includeBuildLogs=true&filename=amostest
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Cache-Control: no-cache
  Cache-Control: no-store
  Content-Type: text/plain
  Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:37:13 GMT
  Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
  Pragma: no-cache
  Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
  Set-Cookie: TCSESSIONID=0D6AD6D48305502D3233154CE7052F8C; Path=/; HttpOnly
  Set-Cookie: RememberMe=""; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT; Path=/; HttpOnly
  transfer-encoding: chunked
  Connection: Close
Length: unspecified [text/plain]
Saving to: 'wget.out’

     0K                                                         484K=0s

2015-01-08 17:37:06 (484 KB/s) - 'wget.out’ saved [4]

And here is the response body:

Idle

Can you please show me a transcript of an API call like you describe?

Thanks.

You should perform POST request. Here is the example of request:

curl -u user:password --request POST http://localhost:8111/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?includeConfigs=true'&'includeDatabase=true'&'fileName=testBackup

The answer is:

testBackup_20150108_141924.zip

Thanks. This one worked.

I also had to fix the "filename" parameter to "fileName" (with a capital "N").