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The backup manifest generated by lt_basebackup is primarily intended to permit the backup to be verified using lt_verifybackup. However, it is also possible for other tools to read the backup manifest file and use the information contained therein for their own purposes. To that end, this chapter describes the format of the backup manifest file.
A backup manifest is a JSON document encoded as UTF-8. (Although in
general JSON documents are required to be Unicode, LightDB permits
the json
and jsonb
data types to be used with any
supported server encoding. There is no similar exception for backup
manifests.) The JSON document is always an object; the keys that are present
in this object are described in the next section.