compute
POST /v1/compute/servers/{serverId}/backups/tier
Move the machine between the standard and extended backup tiers.
Authentication
Send an API key as a bearer token. The key must carry the billing.payment.manage permission; a key without it is refused with 403, not 404.
This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/compute/servers/{serverId}/backups/tier \
-H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "tier": <string<standard, pro>> }'Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
⛔⛔ **Chargeable one way and lossy the other.** Upgrading starts a recurring charge for as long as it runs. Downgrading returns the machine to the standard retention, and what happens to the snapshots already taken is the provider's decision and is not documented — so a confirmation should say the tier changes and must **not** promise a date for the older restore points. The response is the tier **re-read from the provider**, never an echo of the request. Requires `billing.payment.manage`.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
serverId (path) | Uuid | Yes | The server's id, as `listComputeServers` reports it. **Ours** (UUIDv7), minted when the order row was written — never the provider's own identifier for the machine. |
Request body
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
tier | string<standard, pro> | Yes | ⛔ Ours, not the provider's. `standard` maps to their `normal` and `pro` to their `upgraded`; the mapping lives in the engine so a client never learns a vendor word. |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
data | ComputeBackupTier | Yes | A machine's backup tier and the price of moving it. ⛔ `tier` is the provider's own word, verbatim (`normal` / `upgraded`), because rounding it to a boolean loses the difference… |
Errors this endpoint can return
401 · 403 · 404 · 422 · 429 · 503