describe-backups AWS CLI 2.0.33 Command Reference

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Description

Returns the description of specific Amazon FSx backups, if a BackupIds value is provided for that backup. Otherwise, it returns all backups owned by your AWS account in the AWS Region of the endpoint that you’re calling.

When retrieving all backups, you can optionally specify the MaxResults parameter to limit the number of backups in a response. If more backups remain, Amazon FSx returns a NextToken value in the response. In this case, send a later request with the NextToken request parameter set to the value of NextToken from the last response.

This action is used in an iterative process to retrieve a list of your backups. DescribeBackups is called first without a NextToken value. Then the action continues to be called with the NextToken parameter set to the value of the last NextToken value until a response has no NextToken .

When using this action, keep the following in mind:

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

describe-backups is a paginated operation. Multiple API calls may be issued in order to retrieve the entire data set of results. You can disable pagination by providing the --no-paginate argument. When using --output text and the --query argument on a paginated response, the --query argument must extract data from the results of the following query expressions: Backups

Options

--backup-ids (list)

IDs of the backups you want to retrieve (String). This overrides any filters. If any IDs are not found, BackupNotFound will be thrown.

(string)

The ID of the backup. Specifies the backup to use if you’re creating a file system from an existing backup.

Syntax:

"string" "string" ... 

--filters (list)

Filters structure. Supported names are file-system-id and backup-type.

(structure)

A filter used to restrict the results of describe calls. You can use multiple filters to return results that meet all applied filter requirements.

Name -> (string)

The name for this filter.

Values -> (list)

The values of the filter. These are all the values for any of the applied filters.

(string)

The value for a filter.

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ... 

JSON Syntax:

[ { "Name": "file-system-id"|"backup-type"|"file-system-type", "Values": ["string", ...] } ... ] 

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

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