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# List site backups

GET https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups

Lists the backups of every website the token can reach, newest first, as a JSON:API collection of type `site-backups` with the usual `links` / `meta` pagination. Narrow with `filter[site][]` (exact website ids) or `filter[id][]` (the backup ids a create or retry answered) to follow a batch.

Each entry carries `site_id`, `status`, `phase`, `attempts`, `backup_type` (`full` / `incremental`), `method` (`manual` / `automatic` / `force_first`), `size`, `is_favorite` (master backup, kept out of the retention policy), `restored_at`, `comment`, `created_at` and `updated_at`.

`phase` is the state to read: `in_progress` (still running), `done` (a usable copy) or `failed` (the server retries a failed copy on its own up to four times during its first day; `attempts` counts them). `excluded` never matches a backup: it is the phase of a part that had nothing to copy - see `include=items` on the show endpoint. `status` is the raw pipeline step behind it.

`include=site` adds the website; the parts of a copy (`include=items`) and the detail fields belong to the show endpoint.

Websites of other organizations - and members without the backups read permission - answer 404; an unknown filter answers 400 and an invalid value 422. A read-only token is enough. The MCP twin of this endpoint is the `site-backups-index` tool.

Reference: https://api.docs.modulards.com/modular-ds-public-api/site-backups/list-site-backups

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Personal access token created in the Modular DS dashboard; read-only tokens can only call GET endpoints.

## Request

### Query parameters

- `filter[site][]` (string, optional) — Exact website ids (repeatable)
- `filter[id][]` (string, optional) — Exact backup ids, e.g. the ids a create or retry answered (repeatable)
- `filter[phase][]` (string, optional) — in_progress | done | failed | excluded (repeatable). Only done is a usable copy
- `filter[status][]` (string, optional) — Raw pipeline steps: done, pending, manifest_in_progress, manifest_upload_pending, manifest_uploading, manifest_done, in_progress, upload_pending, uploading, excluded, failed, failed_in_creation, failed_export_database, failed_export_files, failed_export_manifest, failed_in_processing, failed_uploaded, failed_partial, failed_file_not_found, storage_exceeded (repeatable)
- `filter[backup_type][]` (string, optional) — full | incremental - the model's type column, aliased because type is reserved in JSON:API (repeatable)
- `filter[method][]` (string, optional) — manual | automatic | force_first (repeatable)
- `filter[is_favorite]` (string, optional) — 1|0 - only master backups, or only the rotating ones
- `include` (string, optional) — site - the website each backup belongs to
- `sort` (string, optional) — created_at, size; prefix with - to invert. Default: -created_at (newest first)
- `page[number]` (string, optional)
- `page[size]` (string, optional) — Max 50

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.modulards.com/api/public/v1/site-backups")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```