Avamar

aid: avamar
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/avamar.png
name: Avamar
description: Avamar is enterprise backup and recovery software built on client-side global data deduplication, founded in
  Irvine, California and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners before EMC acquired the company in November 2006 for approximately
  $165 million. Avamar now ships as Dell Avamar, part of the Dell Technologies data protection portfolio, and is deployed
  as a customer-hosted appliance or virtual edition rather than as a public SaaS. It exposes a REST API on the Avamar server
  for programmatic backup, restore, client, domain, dataset, policy and activity management, secured with OAuth 2.0 access
  tokens and optional OIDC single sign-on, and documented through a Swagger UI served from the appliance itself. A first-party
  Management Console Command Line Interface (mccli) and the avtar/avmaint command set provide the scripted administrative
  surface alongside the API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/avamar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: EMC Corporation (now Dell Technologies)
x-acquired-date: '2006-11-15'
x-deployment: customer-hosted
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Backup
- Data Protection
- Deduplication
- Disaster Recovery
- Storage
- Enterprise Software
- Infrastructure
- Dell Technologies
- On-Premise
apis:
- aid: avamar:avamar-rest-api
  name: Avamar REST API
  description: The Avamar REST API provides a framework to develop applications and tools that interact with a stand-alone
    Avamar server. It exposes backup, restore, client, domain, dataset, retention, policy, plugin and activity resources over
    HTTPS on the Avamar server itself. Third-party clients are registered as OAuth 2.0 clients and call the API with a bearer
    access token. A Swagger UI served from the appliance at /api/swagger-ui.html carries the complete operation and object-model
    listing.
  humanURL: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/avamar-rest-api/docs
  baseURL: https://avamarserver/api/v1
  x-baseURL-note: Customer-hosted. <avamarserver> is the IP address or FQDN of the customer's own Avamar server; Dell publishes
    no shared multi-tenant production host.
  tags:
  - Backup
  - Data Protection
  - REST
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Backup
  - Data Protection
  - REST
  - OAuth
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/avamar-rest-api/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/avamar-server/avamar_administration_guide_19.10/avamar-rest-api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/data-protection/technical-support/docu89854.pdf
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dell.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.dell.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/avamar-rest-api/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-us/product/avamar-rest-api/resources/manuals
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/data-protection/technical-support/docu89854.pdf
- type: Support
  url: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/avamar-server/overview
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/dell
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/avamar-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/avamar-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/avamar-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/avamar-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/avamar-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000185734/all-dell-emc-end-of-life-documents
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/avamar-changelog.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/avamar-cli.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/avamar-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/avamar-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/about-us/security-and-trust-center/compliance-service-organization-control-overlay.htm
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/avamar-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/avamar-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.dell.com/support/contents/en-us/article/product-support/self-support-knowledgebase/security-antivirus/alerts-vulnerabilities/dell-vulnerability-response-policy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/avamar-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/avamar-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/avamar-security.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/avamar-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/avamar-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io