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# verify_backup

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.verify_backup"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">verify\_backup</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">backup\_name</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">''</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">datasource\_name</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L41561"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Inspects the requested database <a className="reference external" href="/content/admin/backup_restore/#database-backup">backup(s)</a> for conformity at the remote file store accessible via the <a className="reference external" href="/content/concepts/data_sources/">data source</a> specified by input parameter <span className="em">datasource\_name</span>. By default all snapshots are inspected unless the option <span className="em">backup\_id</span> is used to target a specific instance. Returns backup verification results.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">backup\_name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Name of the backup. An empty string or ‘\*’ will check all existing backups. Any text followed by a ‘\*’ will inspect backups whose name starts with that text. The default value is ‘’.</p>
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              <p>Data source through which the backup is accessible.</p>
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            <div className="dt">options (<span className="em">dict of str to str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Optional parameters. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>backup\_id</strong> – ID of the snapshot to verify. Set to ‘-1’ to verify all snapshots in the backup. Leave empty to verify only the most recent snapshot. The default value is ‘-1’.</p>
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              <p>The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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              <p>Value of input parameter <span className="em">backup\_name</span>.</p>
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              <p>Backup name(s).</p>
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            <div className="dt">backup\_ids (<span className="em">list of lists of longs</span>) –</div>

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              <p>IDs of individual snapshots per backup name.</p>
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            <div className="dt">errors (<span className="em">list of lists of str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Any errors detected from the inspection of each backup.</p>
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            <div className="dt">info (<span className="em">dict of str to str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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