Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

ListBackupJobs

Returns a list of existing backup jobs for an authenticated account for the last 30 days. For a longer period of time, consider using these monitoring tools.

Request Syntax


GET /backup-jobs/?accountId=ByAccountId&backupVaultName=ByBackupVaultName&completeAfter=ByCompleteAfter&completeBefore=ByCompleteBefore&createdAfter=ByCreatedAfter&createdBefore=ByCreatedBefore&maxResults=MaxResults&nextToken=NextToken&parentJobId=ByParentJobId&resourceArn=ByResourceArn&resourceType=ByResourceType&state=ByState HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

ByAccountId

The account ID to list the jobs from. Returns only backup jobs associated with the specified account ID.

If used from an AWS Organizations management account, passing * returns all jobs across the organization.

Pattern: ^[0-9]{12}$

ByBackupVaultName

Returns only backup jobs that will be stored in the specified backup vault. Backup vaults are identified by names that are unique to the account used to create them and the AWS Region where they are created. They consist of lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]{2,50}$

ByCompleteAfter

Returns only backup jobs completed after a date expressed in Unix format and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

ByCompleteBefore

Returns only backup jobs completed before a date expressed in Unix format and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

ByCreatedAfter

Returns only backup jobs that were created after the specified date.

ByCreatedBefore

Returns only backup jobs that were created before the specified date.

ByParentJobId

This is a filter to list child (nested) jobs based on parent job ID.

ByResourceArn

Returns only backup jobs that match the specified resource Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

ByResourceType

Returns only backup jobs for the specified resources:

Aurora for Amazon Aurora
DocumentDB for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
DynamoDB for Amazon DynamoDB
EBS for Amazon Elastic Block Store
EC2 for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
EFS for Amazon Elastic File System
FSx for Amazon FSx
Neptune for Amazon Neptune
RDS for Amazon Relational Database Service
Storage Gateway for AWS Storage Gateway
S3 for Amazon S3
VirtualMachine for virtual machines

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.]{1,50}$

ByState

Returns only backup jobs that are in the specified state.

MaxResults

The maximum number of items to be returned.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 1000.

NextToken

The next item following a partial list of returned items. For example, if a request is made to return maxResults number of items, NextToken allows you to return more items in your list starting at the location pointed to by the next token.

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "BackupJobs": [ 
      { 
         "AccountId": "string",
         "BackupJobId": "string",
         "BackupOptions": { 
            "string" : "string" 
         },
         "BackupSizeInBytes": number,
         "BackupType": "string",
         "BackupVaultArn": "string",
         "BackupVaultName": "string",
         "BytesTransferred": number,
         "CompletionDate": number,
         "CreatedBy": { 
            "BackupPlanArn": "string",
            "BackupPlanId": "string",
            "BackupPlanVersion": "string",
            "BackupRuleId": "string"
         },
         "CreationDate": number,
         "ExpectedCompletionDate": number,
         "IamRoleArn": "string",
         "IsParent": boolean,
         "ParentJobId": "string",
         "PercentDone": "string",
         "RecoveryPointArn": "string",
         "ResourceArn": "string",
         "ResourceName": "string",
         "ResourceType": "string",
         "StartBy": number,
         "State": "string",
         "StatusMessage": "string"
      }
   ],
   "NextToken": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

BackupJobs

An array of structures containing metadata about your backup jobs returned in JSON format.

Type: Array of BackupJob objects

NextToken

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidParameterValueException

Indicates that something is wrong with a parameter's value. For example, the value is out of range.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceUnavailableException

The request failed due to a temporary failure of the server.

HTTP Status Code: 500