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Shows information about one or more backups accessible via the data source specified by input parameter datasource_name.

Input Parameter Description

string
Name of the backup. An empty string or '' will show all existing backups. Any text followed by a '' will show backups whose name starts with that text.The default value is ”.
string
Data source through which the backup is accessible.
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
String
Empty if success or an error message
String
‘show_backup_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
String
Empty string
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /show/backup endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.