CreateBackupTarget

05/25/2022 Contributors

You can use CreateBackupTarget to create and store backup target information so that you do not need to re-enter 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)

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
   }
}

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