# VAST Data Protection Policies API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-protection-policies-api/  
**Provider:** VAST Data — https://apis.io/providers/vastdata/  
**Base URL:** https://{vms-host}/api  
**Documentation:** https://www.vastdata.com/platform/developers

VAST Data Protection Policies API is one of 123 APIs that [VAST Data](https://apis.io/providers/vastdata/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Protection Policies. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and SDKs.

A protection policy is a reusable configuration that defines a schedule for taking snapshots and optionally replicating them to a specified async replication peer or S3 replication peer.

## Operations (5)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/protectionpolicies/` | Return Protection Policies |
| POST | `/protectionpolicies/` | Create Protection Policy |
| DELETE | `/protectionpolicies/{id}/` | Delete Protection Policy |
| GET | `/protectionpolicies/{id}/` | Return Details of a Protection Policy |
| PATCH | `/protectionpolicies/{id}/` | Modify a Protection Policy |

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vastdata/refs/heads/main/openapi/vastdata-protection-policies-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://support.vastdata.com/s/
- **SDK** — https://github.com/vast-data/vastpy

## Other VAST Data APIs (12)

- [VAST Data Alarms API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-alarms-api/)
- [VAST Data Basicsettings API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-basicsettings-api/)
- [VAST Data Bgpconfigs API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-bgpconfigs-api/)
- [VAST Data Blob Expansions API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-blob-expansions-api/)
- [VAST Data Block Hosts API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-block-hosts-api/)
- [VAST Data Blockmappings API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-blockmappings-api/)
- [VAST Data Callhomeconfigs API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-callhomeconfigs-api/)
- [VAST Data Capacity API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-capacity-api/)
- [VAST Data Carriers API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-carriers-api/)
- [VAST Data Cboxes API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-cboxes-api/)
- [VAST Data Certificates API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-certificates-api/)
- [VAST Data Challengetokens API](https://apis.io/apis/vastdata/vastdata-challengetokens-api/)

## Tags

Protection Policies

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