# Backrest

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/backrest/  
**Website:** https://backrest.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Backrest provides a secure, web‑accessible backup solution built on top of restic. It offers an intuitive Web UI for managing repositories, snapshots, and restores, with features like scheduling, repository health monitoring, and support for multiple storage backends such as S3, B2, Azure, and GCS. The platform simplifies backup workflows for both technical and non‑technical users, delivering encrypted, reliable backups through a lightweight Go binary.

## Kin Score — 12.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 8.8 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 19.6 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 20.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | unknown |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |

## APIs (1)

- **Backrest API** — Backrest provides a secure, web‑accessible backup solution with a Web UI for managing backups.

## Security (1)

- **Backrest Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Backup, Storage, Restic, OpenSource, Go

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