1. Operations
2. appliance
3. recovery
4. backup
5. job

## appliance recovery backup job: cancel

Cancel the backup job

### Request:

#### HTTP request

POST https://{server}/rest/appliance/recovery/backup/job/{id}/cancel

#### Path Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
Required
id | string | ID (ID of job).

### Response:

#### HTTP Status Code: 200

#### Representations:

- JSON
- XML

{
"value": {
"messages": [
{
"args": [
"string",
"string"
],
"default_message": "string",
"id": "string"
},
{
"args": [
"string",
"string"
],
"default_message": "string",
"id": "string"
}
],
"status": "FAIL"
}
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:Cancel-Result xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/recovery/backup/job" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<value>
<status>FAIL</status>
<messages-array>
<array-item>
<default_message>string</default_message>
<id>string</id>
<args-array>
<array-item>string</array-item>
<array-item>string</array-item>
</args-array>
</array-item>
<array-item>
<default_message>string</default_message>
<id>string</id>
<args-array>
<array-item>string</array-item>
<array-item>string</array-item>
</args-array>
</array-item>
</messages-array>
</value>
</ns0:Cancel-Result>

#### Response Type:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
bold = required
value | return_result | BackupJobStatus Structure.
value.status | string | Check status Defines the state of precheck Value is one of: FAIL: Check failed WARNING: Passed with warnings OK: Check passed
value.messages | localizable_message[] | List of messages
value.messages[].id | string | id in message bundle
value.messages[].default_message | string | text in english
value.messages[].args | string[] | nested data

#### Errors:

HTTP Status Code | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
404 | not_found | ID is not found
500 | error | Generic error