Backup & Recover for Salesforce

Backup & Recover is designed to help you efficiently back up data, restore data if it's lost or corrupted, and meet data integrity and compliance goals. Precise data restoration tools help you identify and recover data affected by integration issues, system errors, or user error. You can create daily backups of data, attached files, metadata, managed packages, and sandboxes. Through secure cloud-to-cloud backups and independent data storage, stay connected to your backup data from anywhere without interruption.

• Get Started with Backup & Recover for Salesforce
  Review concepts and articles that explain how to use Backup & Recover for Salesforce, including account creation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Back Up Your Data with Backup & Recover for Salesforce
  Safeguard your critical business information by adding a backup service to your account. Each service you add can back up Salesforce production data, production metadata, sandbox data, or sandbox metadata. Backups then run automatically, securing your data so it can be recovered.
• How to Search within Salesforce Backups
  Find provides advanced full-text search within your backup snapshots, so you can quickly locate specific information. Search across all fields, standard and custom objects, Chatter feeds, and even within attachments like PDFs and Word documents. See all records matching your criteria, and compare versions across snapshots to track changes over time.
• Compare Salesforce Backups to Identify Record Changes
  Identify record changes between two Salesforce backups by comparing them. You can analyze an entire org or focus on specific objects and their related objects. Quickly spot additions, modifications, and deletions to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Implement the Restore Application to Recover Data
  The Restore application provides a comprehensive solution for restoring data based on backups to your org or instance.
• Manage Scheduled Exports for a Data Backup
  Schedule an export of your backup data to your existing endpoints in the Schedule Exports menu. When the Scheduled Export runs, it will export your last successful backup (either full or for specific objects).
• Data Privacy in Backup & Recover for Salesforce
  Data privacy involves the practices and measures taken to protect personal data, which helps you comply with regulations and maintain customer trust. By implementing data privacy measures, you protect personally identifiable information (PII) and mitigate risks associated with data breaches.
• Verify Data Integrity with Blockchain Verify for Salesforce
  Blockchain Verify ensures data integrity and authenticity within electronic storage, preventing fraud through verification against falsifying changes. Blockchain technology provides irrefutable evidence that backups remain unaltered, supporting regulatory compliance such as SEC17a-4.
• Confirm Salesforce Backups are Unchanged
  Blockchain Verify provides irrefutable evidence of backup data integrity by storing a cryptographic hash of the backup on a public ledger. Organizations can meet regulatory compliance requirements with a time-stamped audit trail of all modifications and deletions.
• Bring Your Own Key (BYOK, BYOKMS and BYOKV) for Backup & Recover
  Understand the differences between Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), Bring Your Own Key Management Service (BYOKMS) and Bring Your Own Key Vault (BYOKV) for Backup & Recover.
• Restricted Use of Uninstalled Connected App
  Starting in early September 2025, Salesforce will restrict the use of uninstalled connected apps for third party apps.
• Backup & Recover for Salesforce FAQs
  Find answers to common questions and optimize your strategy for Backup & Recover for Salesforce.
• Use Salesforce Custom Object Metadata for Auditing and Troubleshooting
  Access custom object metadata in Salesforce backups to audit changes and resolve issues in your Salesforce environment. Reviewing the metadata helps you identify and address errors related to permissions or access issues.
• Common Errors and Warnings in Backup & Recover for Salesforce
  Understand common issues and get tips for fixing problems when you try to access your account, back up or restore data, set up a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) service, or respond to a Data Privacy request.