BACKUP_POLICIES view¶

This Account Usage view provides information about backup policies and their properties.

Columns¶

Column name	Data type	Description
ID	NUMBER	Internal system-generated identifier for the backup policy.
NAME	VARCHAR	Name of the backup policy.
SCHEMA_ID	NUMBER	Internal/system-generated identifier for the schema of the backup policy.
SCHEMA_NAME	VARCHAR	Schema that the backup policy belongs to.
CATALOG_ID	NUMBER	Internal system-generated identifier for the database of the backup policy.
CATALOG_NAME	VARCHAR	Database that the backup policy belongs to.
SCHEDULE	VARCHAR	Schedule for backup creation.
EXPIRE_AFTER_DAYS	NUMBER	Days after backup creation when backup should be expired and automatically deleted.
HAS_RETENTION_LOCK	VARCHAR	Indicates whether the policy includes a retention lock. Y if the policy has a retention lock; N otherwise. Retention lock protects backups from being deleted by anyone for the defined retention period. The retention lock also prevents the retention period from being decreased on the policy.
OWNER	VARCHAR	Name of the role that owns the backup policy.
OWNER_ROLE_TYPE	VARCHAR	Type of role that owns the backup policy. Account role or Database role.
CREATED	TIMESTAMP_LTZ	Date and time when the backup policy was created.
LAST_ALTERED	TIMESTAMP_LTZ	Date and time the object was last altered by a DML, DDL, or background metadata operation. See Usage Notes.
DELETED	TIMESTAMP_LTZ	Date and time when the backup policy was deleted.
COMMENT	VARCHAR	Comment for the backup policy.

Latency for the view may be up to 360 minutes (6 hours).
The LAST_ALTERED column is updated when the following operations are performed on an object:
- DDL operations.
- DML operations (for tables only). This column is updated even when no rows are affected by the DML statement.
- Background maintenance operations on metadata performed by Snowflake.