Reference documentation for the backups API.
Interact with your backups.
Sanity API base URL
https://api.sanity.io/{apiVersion}/projects/{projectId}"projectId"Project ID
"v2025-02-19"API version
/datasets/{datasetName}/settings/backupsName of the dataset
application/jsonEnable or disable backups
application/json{
"enabled": true
}Successfully updated backup settings
/datasets/{datasetName}/backupsName of the dataset
List of backups
application/json{
"backups": [
{
"id": "2024-02-02-19083f95-1741-4e29-997a-76b56c773e24",
"createdAt": "2024-02-02T14:13:06Z"
}
],
"limit": 20
}/datasets/{datasetName}/backups/{backupId}This endpoint is primarily designed for use through the Sanity CLI sanity backup download command, which handles paging, downloading all files, and constructing a tarball in the format expected by sanity dataset import.
Name of the dataset
ID of the backup
A cursor to fetch the next page of files for a download
Backup details
application/json{
"createdAt": "2023-12-12T06:03:01",
"totalFiles": "1021",
"files": [
{
"name": "document1",
"url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/example-bucket/cat.jpeg?X-Goog-Algorithm=GOOG4-RSA-SHA256&X-Goog-Credential=example%40example-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com%2F20181026%2Fus-central1%2Fstorage%2Fgoog4_request&X-Goog-Date=20181026T181309Z&X-Goog-Expires=900&X-Goog-SignedHeaders=host&X-Goog-Signature=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",
"type": "document"
}
],
"nextCursor": "CLAKLSNldl=="
}