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Backup

AWS Backup — backup plans, vaults, selections, and on-demand backup jobs.

REST-JSON multi-tenant 21 operations

Quick start

# See /docs/services/ for SDK patterns; Backup uses the standard boto3 client.

Supported operations

21 operations exposed by this service as of MiniStack 1.4.21. Extracted directly from the handler dispatch in the source module.

CreateBackupPlan CreateBackupSelection CreateBackupVault DeleteBackupPlan DeleteBackupSelection DeleteBackupVault DescribeBackupJob DescribeBackupVault GetBackupPlan GetBackupSelection ListBackupJobs ListBackupPlans ListBackupPlanVersions ListBackupSelections ListBackupVaults ListTags StartBackupJob StopBackupJob TagResource UntagResource UpdateBackupPlan

CloudFormation

The CloudFormation engine provisions these resource types via this service:

AWS::Backup::BackupPlan AWS::Backup::BackupVault

See CloudFormation engine for intrinsic support and lifecycle details.

Known limitations

  • StartBackupJob returns a job that is immediately COMPLETED with 0 bytes and a synthetic recovery-point ARN — no real data is copied. There is no StartRestoreJob; restore/copy jobs are read-only empty stubs.

Source

  • ministack/services/backup.py

Read the source to verify the ops list above — dispatch tables and handler functions are the ground truth.