How do I use BackWPup's List Backup Jobs ability with AI?

Install the Easy MCP AI WordPress plugin alongside BackWPup, connect your AI client, then ask in natural language — for example: "What backup jobs do I have configured, and where do they back up to?"

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

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List Backup Jobs

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BackWPup Backup & Site Management backwpup/list-jobs

Lists all configured BackWPup backup jobs with their destinations and schedules.

Requires the BackWPup plugin on WordPress 6.9+ (each ability is guarded by a function_exists( 'wp_register_ability' ) check, so nothing registers on older cores). Individual abilities also require specific capabilities: 'backwpup' for listing jobs, reading backup history, reading the documentation resource; 'backwpup_jobs_start' for running or cancelling a backup job; and 'backwpup_logs' for reading backup logs.

What it does

This ability returns every non-temporary backup job configured in BackWPup, including its ID, name, human-readable destination labels (e.g. Dropbox, Amazon S3, local Folder), the Unix timestamp of its last run (or null if never run), and its cron schedule expression (or null for manual jobs). BackWPup's own MCP documentation instructs AI assistants to call this ability before any risky website operation — plugin updates, theme changes, core updates, or database migrations — so the user can be offered a backup first.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"What backup jobs do I have configured, and where do they back up to?"

Returns

An object with a jobs array; each entry has id, name, destinations (array of destination labels), last_run (Unix timestamp or null), and schedule (cron expression or null).