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# Pause a Salesforce Service in Backup & Recover for Salesforce

Limit access to your data during proof of concept or testing periods. By pausing instead of archiving, you can specify when to resume backups and avoid losing backup coverage.

Pausing backups in a service can be useful when:

- You want to limit access to your data during proof of concept or other testing periods.
- You want to allocate resources to other processes, such as automations and external tools.

You can pause data services, metadata services, production backup services, and sandbox backup services.

1. On the Services page, select the production or sandbox service you want to pause.
2. From the **Options** tab, and select the **General** tab.
3. IClick **Pause or Archive Service**.
4. Select **Pause backups for**, and then select the number of days to pause the backups for (up to 14 days).
5. Click **Pause**.
    
    You get a confirmation message.

After the pause period ends, the service resumes backing up automatically.

You can resume backups at any time from this page.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-own_from_salesforce-264-0-0-production-enus/8ac98673-ede2-4046-a41e-2d5c846f24ff/images/icon_note.png)

Note Archiving or pausing a backup service generates an event (which appears in the Auditing tab of the Account Settings page), and sends an email. Unarchiving or unpausing a backup service generates an event, but doesn't send an email.

#### See Also

- [Archive a Salesforce Service](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.backup_recover_o_archive_services.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Preserve backup data after you migrate, decommission, or duplicate a Salesforce production or sandbox backup service instance. Archiving the service stops it from backing up new data. Access archived data for future restoration or data seeding.")
- [Delete a Salesforce Sandbox Service](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.backup_recover_o_delete_services.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Free up resources and storage space after a sandbox service is outdated or refreshed. Deleting a sandbox service permanently removes all backup data associated with it.")