What is Salesforce Backup and Restore? Salesforce Backup and Restore, earlier known as Data Recovery Service, is a paid service to help customers recover their lost data and can be useful for customers who don’t have an alternative backup strategy. This service enables customers to create backup copies of Salesforce data natively, set retention policies for those copies, restore the data back into Salesforce organizations, and audit who is using these functions. Salesforce Backup and Restore encrypts all your backup data. This is done while it’s both stored (at rest), and while it’s being transferred (in transit). Salesforce Backup and Restore simplifies data protection for Salesforce administrators by automatically generating daily backups of your Salesforce data. These backups are stored in the same region as your primary data for accessibility. How Does Salesforce Backup Data? Salesforce keeps a backup copy of your data to support its disaster recovery plan (i.e., in case of failure on their part). However, Salesforce explicitly recommends using a third-party solution in the event of data loss.  Salesforce also provides a few native backup options to restore your data at no additional cost. These options include: What are the Limitations of Using Salesforce Backup and Recovery … Continue reading Can You Rely on Salesforce to Backup and Recover Your Data?