Question
How to tell if backups are enabled via the v2 API
- Posted on December 31, 2015
- APIBackups
Asked by Scott Chamberlain
I can see that there is an array for backup_ids in a hash for a droplet, but before there are any backups, is there a way to tell if backups are enabled via the API? An entry with a logical true/false would be nice.
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There’s a
featuresarray near the end of thedropletobject that you can check even before the first backup has been taken. If backups are enabled, it will be listed as an element in that array, the same asprivate_networking,ipv6, andvirtiotoo (although Virtio is enabled by default for all new droplets, it was optional at one time). You can see a sample response body in the API call to retrieve a droplet by ID.