How do I use JetBackup's List Backups ability with AI?

Install the Easy MCP AI WordPress plugin alongside JetBackup, connect your AI client, then ask in natural language — for example: "List my most recent 20 backup snapshots so I can see which ones are still on this site."

List Backups is a WordPress ability from JetBackup — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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List Backups

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JetBackup Backup & Site Management jetbackup/list-backups

List available backup snapshots.

Requires the JetBackup plugin on WordPress 6.9+ for the Abilities API (abilities are registered only when the wp_register_ability() function exists), and JetBackup's own 'Abilities API' toggle must be turned on under Settings > Security. Every ability is additionally gated by JetBackup's permission callback: the caller must be logged in and hold the WordPress 'manage_options' capability (and be a network admin on multisite), and if JetBackup's MFA is enabled and abilities aren't explicitly allowed to bypass it, the caller must also have passed MFA validation.

What it does

This ability lists the backup snapshots JetBackup currently has on record, excluding config-only snapshots. Each entry includes its id, unique_id, the destination it was stored to (destination_id/destination_name), name, backup_type, storage engine, what it contains, its file/database structure, the schedules that produced it, any notes, its stored parameters, creation time, a human-readable size, whether it's locked from cleanup, and its deleted flag. Results are paginated with skip and limit, so an AI assistant can page through every snapshot on the site without pulling everything into one call.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"List my most recent 20 backup snapshots so I can see which ones are still on this site."

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
skip	integer	No	Number of snapshots to skip, for pagination. Minimum 0.
limit	integer	No	Maximum number of snapshots to return (1-100). Defaults to 50; values outside this range are clamped.

Returns

An object with a 'backups' array (each with id, unique_id, destination_id, destination_name, name, backup_type, engine, contains, structure, schedules, schedules_names, notes, params, created timestamp, human-readable size, locked flag, and deleted flag) and a 'total' count of matching snapshots.

Permission

The current user must be logged in and hold the WordPress 'manage_options' capability (network admin on multisite), with JetBackup's Abilities API setting enabled.