# Veritas NetBackup

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/veritas-netbackup/  
**Website:** https://www.veritas.com/products/backup-and-recovery/netbackup  
**APIs profiled:** 20

Enterprise-grade data protection and backup solution with comprehensive REST APIs for backup, recovery, and data management operations.

## Kin Score — 50.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 71.7 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 59.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 32.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| 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 |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (20)

- **NetBackup Administration API** — API for managing NetBackup jobs including getting job details, listing jobs by filter, restarting, resuming, suspending, canceling, and deleting jobs, and retrieving job file li...
- **NetBackup Asset Management API** — API for managing NetBackup assets including servers, clients, and storage devices.
- **NetBackup Security API** — API endpoints for managing authentication, authorization, certificates, credentials, tokens, and security audit logging configurations.
- **NetBackup Image Management API** — API for managing backup images, catalogs, and media retention.
- **NetBackup Configuration API** — API for configuring NetBackup hosts, policies, servers, VM server credentials, and storage settings.
- **NetBackup Storage API** — API for managing storage consumption, capacity reporting, and backup storage on NetBackup primary servers.
- **NetBackup Recovery API** — API for VMware and cloud workload recovery operations including restore and instant access.
- **NetBackup RBAC Administration API** — API for managing role-based access control, permissions, access rules, and access control lists.
- **NetBackup Licensing API** — API for managing entitlements and tracking Front-end Terabytes (FETBs) consumption for NetBackup licensing.
- **NetBackup Service Catalog API** — API for managing service-level objectives (SLOs), protection plans, and subscription handling for backup operations.
- **NetBackup Manage API** — API for managing alerts and notification operations in NetBackup environments.
- **NetBackup Troubleshooting API** — API for status code resolution and error reference to assist with troubleshooting NetBackup issues.
- **NetBackup IT Analytics REST API** — REST API for accessing NetBackup IT Analytics report data, exporting reports in JSON, XML, HTML, PDF, and CSV formats, and exporting custom dashboards.
- **NetBackup Self Service REST API** — REST API for the NetBackup Self Service portal providing backup utilization data, protection status, tenant management, and self-service backup and restore operations.
- **NetBackup Flex Scale REST API** — REST API for controlling all aspects of NetBackup Flex Scale configuration including infrastructure monitoring, user management, node management, patch upgrades, and storage lic...
- **Veritas NetBackup Clients API** — Manage NetBackup clients including listing registered clients, retrieving client configuration details, and managing client-server trust relationships.
- **Veritas NetBackup Images API** — Query the NetBackup image catalog to retrieve backup image metadata, search for images by policy or client, and manage image lifecycle operations such as expiration and duplicat...
- **Veritas NetBackup Jobs API** — Manage and monitor backup, restore, and administrative jobs. Retrieve job details, list jobs by filter criteria, cancel, restart, suspend, and resume jobs, and access job file l...
- **Veritas NetBackup Login API** — Authenticate to the NetBackup REST API and obtain a JSON Web Token for subsequent API requests.
- **Veritas NetBackup Policies API** — Create, retrieve, update, and delete backup policies. Manage policy schedules, client lists, and backup selections that define what data gets backed up, when, and how.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Veritas Netbackup Agentic Access** — 27 operations · 13 acting

## Security (3)

- **Veritas Netbackup Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Veritas Netbackup Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Veritas Netbackup Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Veritas Netbackup Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Automated Backup Operations** — Automate backup policy creation, job scheduling, and monitoring through REST API integration with CI/CD pipelines.
- **Disaster Recovery Orchestration** — Programmatically manage recovery operations for VMware and cloud workloads with instant access capabilities.
- **Compliance and Audit** — Track and report on backup coverage, retention compliance, and security audit events across the enterprise.
- **Multi-Tenant Backup Management** — Provide self-service backup and restore capabilities to multiple tenants through the Self Service portal API.
- **Capacity Planning** — Use IT Analytics APIs to export reports on storage consumption, backup trends, and capacity forecasting.

## Tags

Backup, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise, Recovery, Storage

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