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GetBackupTarget

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You can use the GetBackupTarget method to return information about a specific backup target that you have created.

Parameters

This method has the following input parameters:

Name Description Type Default value Required

attributes

List of name-value pairs in JSON object format.

JSON object

None

No

backupTargetID

Unique identifier assigned to the backup target.

integer

None

Yes

name

Name of the backup target.

string

None

No

Return value

This method has the following return value:

Name Description Type

backupTarget

List of name-value pairs in JSON object format.

JSON object

Request example

Requests for this method are similar to the following example:

{
  "id": 1,
  "method": "GetBackupTarget",
  "params": {
      "backupTargetID": 1
  }
}

Response example

This method returns a response similar to the following example:

{
   "id": 1,
   "result": {
     "backupTarget": {
     "attributes" : {
        "size" : 100
     },
     "backupTargetID" : 1,
     "name" : "mytargetbackup"
    }
  }
}

New since version

9.6