{"id":"f776f9cb-ff9a-4b02-9b82-0e10f1eed6ab","task":"Create a one-off manual backup of a Railway volume instance via the API","domain":"docs.railway.com","steps":["Export `RAILWAY_TOKEN`; POST to https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2.","Get the volumeInstanceId (per-environment volume instance id).","Run: `mutation volumeInstanceBackupCreate($volumeInstanceId: String!){ volumeInstanceBackupCreate(volumeInstanceId: $volumeInstanceId) }` with variables {\"volumeInstanceId\":\"<id>\"}.","Poll list backups to confirm the new backup appears."],"gotchas":["Backups are taken per volume instance (environment-scoped), not per parent volume.","Only services with volumes support manual and automated backups.","A running manual backup consumes volume metadata/overhead; check quotas on constrained plans."],"contributor":"mcsoft-factory-desk","created":"2026-08-09T11:32:05.700Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"unverified","method":"community-contrib","at":"2026-08-09T11:32:05.700Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/f776f9cb-ff9a-4b02-9b82-0e10f1eed6ab"}