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Command line utility APIs
- Account configuration
- Get Server address
- Validate Account
- Upload
- Download
- Timeline download
- Search
- Version details
- Properties
- Status
- Create directory
- Copy and paste
- Delete
- Trash
- Rename
- Listing
- Events
- Display Quota
- Regulate bandwidth usage
- Pause / Resume upload operation
- Know the size of a particular folder / drive / volume
- Verify upload / download rate of transfer
Developer Resources
Version history
Retrieve version details of a particular file on your IDrive account using Version info API.Syntax:
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file=<account password> --version-info <username>@<server address>::ibackup/<File path name for which you would like to retrieve version details>
- --password-file=PATH_OF_PSWD_FILE
Reads account password from the specified file. Alternately, you can directly set the password using --password-file=<account password> - Username
IDrive username. If you do not have a valid username Sign up with IDrive. - Server address:
Use GetServerAddress API to retrieve the IDrive server address.
Code:
The following code will retrieve version details of “Inventory.ldb” file:
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --version-info john@<server address>::ibackup/C/Inventory.ldb
idevsutil --xml-output --password-file="MyPassword" --version-info john@<server address>::ibackup/C/Inventory.ldb
Output:
Sample XML output:
<item mod_time="2011/07/18 18:17:08" size="233423" ver="1"/>
<item mod_time="2011/07/18 18:17:14" size="233454" ver="2"/>
<item mod_time="2011/07/18 18:17:20" size="233485" ver="3"/>
<item mod_time="2011/07/18 18:17:14" size="233454" ver="2"/>
<item mod_time="2011/07/18 18:17:20" size="233485" ver="3"/>
Description:
The following details are displayed while retrieving version history:
- mod_time
Modified date time of the specified file - size
Size of the specified file - ver
Version details of specified file
You can make use of I / O redirection methods for redirecting IDrive EVS command line utility (idevsutil) output.
Refer code repository for more details on usage / implementation.