--- title: Setting Recovery Type description: Node recover type is set with the POST /controller/setRecoverType HTTP method and URI. pubDate: 2026-08-17T09:53:44.266Z antora: editUrl: https://github.com/couchbase/docs-server/edit/release/7.6/modules/rest-api/pages/rest-node-recovery-incremental.adoc xref: xref:7.6@server:rest-api:rest-node-recovery-incremental.adoc[] --- [Consult the llms.txt file for a full list of contents](/llms.txt) [View original HTML](/server/7.6/rest-api/rest-node-recovery-incremental.html) # Setting Recovery Type > Node recover type is set with the `POST /controller/setRecoverType` HTTP method and URI. ## [](#http-method-and-uri)HTTP method and URI Sets the recovery type to be performed for a node. Recovery options are delta node recovery or full recovery. The recovery type for a node is set after the node is failed over and before rebalance. Rebalance is required to apply the recovery. POST /controller/setRecoveryType The progress of setting recovery type can be tracked just like rebalance. After the data is persisted to disk and replicas are up-to-date, the node is put into the failed over state. ## [](#syntax)Syntax POST /controller/setRecoveryType otpNode=[node@hostname] recoveryType=[full|delta] ## [](#example)Example The following Curl request example sets delta node recovery. curl -u Administrator:password -d 'otpNode=ns_1@10.5.2.118' -d 'recoveryType=delta' \ http://10.5.2.54:8091/controller/setRecoveryType ## [](#response-codes)Response codes 200 // Request succeeded 400 // recoveryType and/or otpNode could not be understood by the server 404 // The cluster is running in a pre-3.0 compatibility mode and thus cannot satisfy the request