Use Case

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Snapshots, replication, and tested failover.

27 providers 787 APIs 13 declared variants

Protecting against loss and outage — scheduled backups and archives, cross-region replication, restore testing, and documented failover that meets an RTO and RPO.

27 API providers on the APIs.io network offer backup & disaster recovery. The highest-rated are Acronis, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, Airbyte.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Active-Active ReplicationBackup and ArchiveBackup and Archive to CloudBackup and Disaster RecoveryBackup and disaster recovery storageCross-Region Data ReplicationDatabase ReplicationDisaster RecoveryDisaster Recovery AutomationDisaster Recovery DrillsDisaster Recovery OrchestrationETF and Fund ReplicationReliability and Failover

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