Need more info about retrieve status of backuptask

[wareteamflo]

Hi,

We are using the ActiveBackup API but are struggling to retrieve the status of each backup.

When calling list_logs, we receive a lot of information, but the status_code is always 2 for all failed backup tasks, making it impossible to differentiate between successful and failed tasks.

We also tried list_logs_details, but all error_code values are 0.

Do you have more information on how to accurately determine the real status of a task (successful, failed, running, canceled)?

Thank you so much!

[joeperpetua]

I will take a look later today to see how the API is returning the task status

[wareteamflo]

Thank you @joeperpetua :)

[joeperpetua]

Hey @wareteamflo

I did a little digging and this is what I got.

When using backup_task_list you should be able to get a dictionary with a last_result object, there you get the status field that could have any of the following values:

• 2 -> Successful
• 3 -> Partial success
• 4 -> Failed
• 5 -> Canceled
• 6 -> Not backed up yet

Example success (status: 2):
data.tasks[x].last_status

{
    "backup_type": 2,
    "detail_path": "",
    "error_count": 0,
    "job_action": 1,
    "none_count": 0,
    "result_id": 345,
    "status": 2,
    "success_count": 0,
    "task_config": {
        "device_list": [
            {
                "device_id": 2,
                "host_name": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
            }
        ]
    },
    "task_id": 2,
    "task_name": "xxxxxxxxx",
    "time_end": 1713350027,
    "time_start": 1713349678,
    "transfered_bytes": 3686359040,
    "warning_count": 0
}

Same applies for list_logs, you get a status field with the same values.

Example failed (status: 4):

{
    "count": 1,
    "results": [
        {
            "backup_type": 4,
            "detail_path": "",
            "error_count": 1,
            "job_action": 1,
            "none_count": 0,
            "result_id": 592,
            "status": 4,
            "success_count": 0,
            "task_config": {
                "device_list": [
                    {
                        "device_id": 6,
                        "host_name": "xxxxxxx"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "task_id": 8,
            "task_name": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
            "time_end": 1741897498,
            "time_start": 1741897423,
            "warning_count": 0
        }
    ]
}

I will see to document this class in the future to better clarify this.

I think we can also add a function to get the general logs from the "Activity" screen, for future reference, the code mapping there is as follows:

data.logs[x].log_level

• 0 -> Error
• 1 -> Warning
• 2 -> Information

Let me know if you have any further question :)