# Avamar

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/avamar/  
**Website:** https://developer.dell.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 24.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 14.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Avamar REST API** — 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, r...

## Security (4)

- **Avamar Authentication** — oauth2/http/openIdConnect · 5 schemes
- **Avamar Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Avamar Vulnerability Disclosure** — Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published
- **Avamar Trust Center** — ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II

## Tags

Company, Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Enterprise Software, Infrastructure, Dell Technologies, On-Premise

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/avamar/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.