DynamoDB / Client / list_backups

list_backups#

DynamoDB.Client.list_backups(**kwargs)#

List DynamoDB backups that are associated with an Amazon Web Services account and weren’t made with Amazon Web Services Backup. To list these backups for a given table, specify TableName. ListBackups returns a paginated list of results with at most 1 MB worth of items in a page. You can also specify a maximum number of entries to be returned in a page.

In the request, start time is inclusive, but end time is exclusive. Note that these boundaries are for the time at which the original backup was requested.

You can call ListBackups a maximum of five times per second.

If you want to retrieve the complete list of backups made with Amazon Web Services Backup, use the Amazon Web Services Backup list API.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.list_backups(
    TableName='string',
    Limit=123,
    TimeRangeLowerBound=datetime(2015, 1, 1),
    TimeRangeUpperBound=datetime(2015, 1, 1),
    ExclusiveStartBackupArn='string',
    BackupType='USER'|'SYSTEM'|'AWS_BACKUP'|'ALL'
)
Parameters:

  • TableName (string) – Lists the backups from the table specified in TableName. You can also provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the table in this parameter.

  • Limit (integer) – Maximum number of backups to return at once.

  • TimeRangeLowerBound (datetime) – Only backups created after this time are listed. TimeRangeLowerBound is inclusive.

  • TimeRangeUpperBound (datetime) – Only backups created before this time are listed. TimeRangeUpperBound is exclusive.

  • ExclusiveStartBackupArn (string) – LastEvaluatedBackupArn is the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the backup last evaluated when the current page of results was returned, inclusive of the current page of results. This value may be specified as the ExclusiveStartBackupArn of a new ListBackups operation in order to fetch the next page of results.

  • BackupType (string) –

    The backups from the table specified by BackupType are listed.

    Where BackupType can be:

    • USER - On-demand backup created by you. (The default setting if no other backup types are specified.)

    • SYSTEM - On-demand backup automatically created by DynamoDB.

    • ALL - All types of on-demand backups (USER and SYSTEM).

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'BackupSummaries': [
        {
            'TableName': 'string',
            'TableId': 'string',
            'TableArn': 'string',
            'BackupArn': 'string',
            'BackupName': 'string',
            'BackupCreationDateTime': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
            'BackupExpiryDateTime': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
            'BackupStatus': 'CREATING'|'DELETED'|'AVAILABLE',
            'BackupType': 'USER'|'SYSTEM'|'AWS_BACKUP',
            'BackupSizeBytes': 123
        },
    ],
    'LastEvaluatedBackupArn': 'string'
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) –

    • BackupSummaries (list) –

      List of BackupSummary objects.

      • (dict) –

        Contains details for the backup.

        • TableName (string) –

          Name of the table.

        • TableId (string) –

          Unique identifier for the table.

        • TableArn (string) –

          ARN associated with the table.

        • BackupArn (string) –

          ARN associated with the backup.

        • BackupName (string) –

          Name of the specified backup.

        • BackupCreationDateTime (datetime) –

          Time at which the backup was created.

        • BackupExpiryDateTime (datetime) –

          Time at which the automatic on-demand backup created by DynamoDB will expire. This SYSTEM on-demand backup expires automatically 35 days after its creation.

        • BackupStatus (string) –

          Backup can be in one of the following states: CREATING, ACTIVE, DELETED.

        • BackupType (string) –

          BackupType:

          • USER - You create and manage these using the on-demand backup feature.

          • SYSTEM - If you delete a table with point-in-time recovery enabled, a SYSTEM backup is automatically created and is retained for 35 days (at no additional cost). System backups allow you to restore the deleted table to the state it was in just before the point of deletion.

          • AWS_BACKUP - On-demand backup created by you from Backup service.

        • BackupSizeBytes (integer) –

          Size of the backup in bytes.

    • LastEvaluatedBackupArn (string) –

      The ARN of the backup last evaluated when the current page of results was returned, inclusive of the current page of results. This value may be specified as the ExclusiveStartBackupArn of a new ListBackups operation in order to fetch the next page of results.

      If LastEvaluatedBackupArn is empty, then the last page of results has been processed and there are no more results to be retrieved.

      If LastEvaluatedBackupArn is not empty, this may or may not indicate that there is more data to be returned. All results are guaranteed to have been returned if and only if no value for LastEvaluatedBackupArn is returned.

Exceptions