Get backup overview is a WordPress ability from Jetpack — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Get backup overview
Read-onlyReturn a one-call snapshot of the site's backup state: last backup, recent count, schedule, and storage usage.
Requires the Jetpack plugin on WordPress 6.9+. Abilities are registered by several bundled Jetpack packages (automattic/jetpack-backup, jetpack-connection, jetpack-forms, jetpack-stats) plus the main plugin's own registrars for Related Posts, Shortlinks, Sitemaps, Newsletter/Subscriptions, and Monitor. Permission requirements vary by ability — most gate on 'manage_options', 'jetpack_admin_page', or 'view_stats', while Forms abilities use 'edit_pages'. Backup abilities only register when a Backup product/plan is active; Sitemaps, Monitor, and Newsletter abilities only register when their respective module is turned on.
What it does
This ability composes three underlying WordPress.com backup calls into a single snapshot: the most recent backup (its ID, last-updated time, status, whether it's rewindable, and whether it has warnings), the count of recent backups, the configured backup schedule (hour/minute), and current storage usage against the account's limit. Each of these sub-values degrades independently to null if its backing service call fails, rather than failing the whole ability — so a partial result is still useful. Use it before deciding whether to call list-backups, list-restores, or request-backup. This ability only registers on sites with an active Jetpack Backup product or plan.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Give me a quick overview of my site's backup status — when was the last backup, and how much storage am I using?"
Returns
An object with recent_backup_count (integer or null), last_backup (an object with id, last_updated, status, is_rewindable, has_warnings, or null), schedule (an object with hour and minute, or null), and storage (an object with used_bytes and limit_bytes, or null).
Permission
The current user must have the 'manage_options' capability.
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