GetAllBackups

What GetAllBackups does on Veeam VBR v13 MCP Server

AI agents call GetAllBackups to retrieve information from Veeam VBR v13 MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why GetAllBackups is rated Low

This tool retrieves backup metadata/datasets from the Veeam Backup & Replication server. While it is purely read-only (no creation, modification, or deletion), the sensitivity is elevated to 'medium' rather than 'low' because backup datasets contain critical infrastructure recovery information that could be valuable to an attacker for reconnaissance, and exposure of all backups across the entire server could reveal…

From the tool's definition Tool name 'GetAllBackups' and description 'Get all backup datasets created on or imported to the Veeam Backup server' indicate a data retrieval operation with no side effects. The verb 'Get' and lack of any modification language confirm read-only access.

The rule that runs GetAllBackups safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Veeam VBR v13 MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For GetAllBackups, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "GetAllBackups": {}
  }
}

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