# Backups

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/backups/  
**Website:** https://apievangelist.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

An index and topic collection covering backup, disaster recovery, and data protection APIs. Backup APIs enable applications and platforms to schedule, orchestrate, and verify the copying of data from production systems to durable storage targets, manage retention and immutability policies, and recover workloads after incidents ranging from accidental deletion to ransomware. This collection spans enterprise backup platforms like Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, and Cohesity, SaaS data backup providers like Rewind, OwnBackup, Spanning, and Backupify, endpoint and cloud backup services like Acronis, Druva, and Carbonite, cloud-native backup services from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, open-source tools like Restic, BorgBackup, and Duplicati, and storage targets used as backup destinations such as Backblaze B2 and Wasabi.

## Kin Score — 9.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-10-17 under rubric 0.24.0. Trend: flat (+0.1 from 9.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 48.2 |
| Contract Quality | 14.7 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 4.9 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Use cases (6)

- **Ransomware Recovery** — Organizations use backup APIs to identify the most recent clean recovery point after a ransomware event and orchestrate restore of affected VMs, files, and databases at scale.
- **SaaS Tenant Protection** — SMBs and enterprises run SaaS backup APIs to protect Microsoft 365 mailboxes, SharePoint sites, Google Workspace drives, and Salesforce records against accidental deletion and m...
- **Cross-Region Disaster Recovery** — Operators use APIs like AWS Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Veeam to replicate workloads across regions and execute scheduled DR drills with measurable RPO and RTO.
- **Long-Term Archival and Compliance** — Regulated industries push immutable backup copies to archive tiers (S3 Glacier, Azure Archive, B2) via backup APIs to satisfy retention mandates under HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, and FINRA.
- **Endpoint and Remote Worker Backup** — Endpoint backup APIs from Druva, Acronis, and Carbonite protect laptops and remote devices and let IT centrally restore files after device loss or compromise.
- **Database and VM Snapshot Automation** — Platform engineers script database, VM, and volume snapshots via cloud-native APIs (Amazon DLM, Azure Backup, NetApp) and integrate them into CI/CD and pre-change checkpoints.

## Tags

Backup, Disaster Recovery, Data Protection, Snapshot, Archives

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