Veritas NetBackup
Enterprise-grade data protection and backup solution with comprehensive REST APIs for backup, recovery, and data management operations.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Veritas NetBackup the way a machine reads it — 198 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Veritas NetBackup scores 52.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile Veritas NetBackup
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Veritas NetBackup. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 20
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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.
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Postman Collections 5
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open Collections 7
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONVeritas NetBackup REST Clients API
OPEN COLLECTIONVeritas NetBackup REST Clients Images API
OPEN COLLECTIONVeritas NetBackup REST Clients Jobs API
OPEN COLLECTIONVeritas NetBackup REST Clients Login API
OPEN COLLECTIONVeritas NetBackup REST Clients Policies API
OPEN COLLECTIONVeritas NetBackup REST API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Veritas Netbackup Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Veritas Netbackup Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Enterprise Backup and Recovery
Comprehensive backup and recovery for physical, virtual, and cloud workloads across heterogeneous environments.
Policy-Based Protection
Create and manage backup policies with configurable schedules, retention rules, and client selections.
Job Management
Monitor, control, and troubleshoot backup and restore jobs with full lifecycle management via REST API.
Catalog Management
Query and manage backup image catalogs for tracking, searching, and lifecycle management of backup data.
Role-Based Access Control
Fine-grained RBAC for managing user permissions across NetBackup operations and resources.
Self-Service Portal
Enable tenant-level self-service backup and restore operations through the Self Service portal API.
IT Analytics and Reporting
Access and export analytics reports and dashboards for backup environment monitoring and capacity planning.
Flex Scale Infrastructure
Manage NetBackup Flex Scale appliance infrastructure including nodes, storage, users, and patch upgrades.
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Semantic Vocabularies 2
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Veritas Netbackup Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Veritas NetBackup API Rules
SPECTRALVeritas NetBackup API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 55
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ClientAttributes
JSON SCHEMAClientListResponse
JSON SCHEMAClientResource
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAImageAttributes
JSON SCHEMAImageContentsResponse
JSON SCHEMAImageListResponse
JSON SCHEMAImageResource
JSON SCHEMAVeritas NetBackup Job
JSON SCHEMAJobAttributes
JSON SCHEMAJobFileListResponse
JSON SCHEMAJobListResponse
JSON SCHEMAJobResource
JSON SCHEMAJobTryLogResponse
JSON SCHEMALoginRequest
JSON SCHEMALoginResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaginationMeta
JSON SCHEMAPolicyAttributes
JSON SCHEMAPolicyClient
JSON SCHEMAPolicyClientListRequest
JSON SCHEMAPolicyClientListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPolicyCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAPolicyListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPolicyResource
JSON SCHEMAPolicySchedule
JSON SCHEMAPolicyScheduleListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPolicyScheduleRequest
JSON SCHEMAPolicyScheduleResource
JSON SCHEMAClientAttributes
JSON SCHEMAClientListResponse
JSON SCHEMAClientResource
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAImageAttributes
JSON SCHEMAImageContentsResponse
JSON SCHEMAImageListResponse
JSON SCHEMAImageResource
JSON SCHEMAJobAttributes
JSON SCHEMAJobFileListResponse
JSON SCHEMAJobListResponse
JSON SCHEMAJobResource
JSON SCHEMAJobTryLogResponse
JSON SCHEMALoginRequest
JSON SCHEMALoginResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaginationMeta
JSON SCHEMAPolicyAttributes
JSON SCHEMAPolicyClientListRequest
JSON SCHEMAPolicyClientListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPolicyClient
JSON SCHEMAPolicyCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAPolicyListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPolicyResource
JSON SCHEMAPolicyScheduleListResponse
JSON SCHEMAPolicyScheduleRequest
JSON SCHEMAPolicyScheduleResource
JSON SCHEMAPolicySchedule
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JSON Structure 28
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Veritas Netbackup Rest Client Attributes Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Client List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Client Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Image Attributes Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Image Contents Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Image List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Image Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Job Attributes Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Job File List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Job List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Job Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Job Try Log Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Login Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Login Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Pagination Meta Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Policy Attributes Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Policy Client Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Policy Create Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Policy List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Policy Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Policy Schedule Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Rest Policy Schedule Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVeritas Netbackup Structure
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Examples 54
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
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.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
VMware vSphere
Native integration for backup and instant recovery of VMware virtual machines and vSphere environments.
Cloud Platforms
Support for backup and recovery of workloads running on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Kubernetes
Container workload protection with backup and recovery support for Kubernetes clusters.
Oracle and SQL Server
Application-consistent backup and granular recovery for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases.
RESTful API Ecosystem
Comprehensive REST API coverage for programmatic integration with ITSM, orchestration, and monitoring tools.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Veritas NetBackup — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 9
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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