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POST/api/v1/admin/backup

Trigger a manual backup notification

Emits a backup.manual_trigger event (log + optional webhook). Admin-only (X-Admin-API-Key). Optional body { reason }.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "reason": "string"
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "reason": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 500
        }
      },
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Response

All status codes

201Backup notification sent

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/admin/backup \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "reason": "string" }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "POST",
  path: "/api/v1/admin/backup",
  body: {
    "reason": "string"
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="POST",
    path="/api/v1/admin/backup",
    body={
    "reason": "string"
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"reason":"string"}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/admin/backup", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

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