CreateBackupTarget

You can use CreateBackupTarget to create and store backup target information so that you do not need to reenter it each time a backup is created.

Parameters

This method has the following input parameters:

Name	Description	Type	Default value	Required
name	Name for the backup target.	string	None	Yes
attributes	List of name-value pairs in JSON object format.	JSON object	None	Yes (but can be empty)

This method has the following return value:

Name	Description	Type
backupTargetID	Unique identifier assigned to the new backup target.	integer

Requests for this method are similar to the following example:

{
   "method": "CreateBackupTarget",
   "params": {
      "name": "mytargetbackup"
   },
"id": 1
}

This method returns a response similar to the following example:

{
   "id": 1,
   "result": {
      "backupTargetID": 1
   }
}