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# Back Up Data for Recovery

Create a backup plan to quickly recover and restore your business data.

Similar to availability, data integrity and protection is a shared responsibility between Salesforce and you. Salesforce securely hosts encrypted data across multiple data centers and upholds a comprehensive list of compliance certifications to meet regulatory and contractual requirements.

Salesforce ensures that your data is safe, but Salesforce data isn’t always safe from business-level user error or integration downtime. While backups of your data are created to prepare for infrastructure-level disaster recovery, we’re unable to restore business-level data outside of this type of event. In the event of user error or data loss, create a backup plan to quickly recover and restore your business data.

You have several data backup options depending on your company’s needs and requirements.

- [Data Export service](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.admin_exportdata.htm&type=5&language=en_US)—Schedule or manually generate a backup of your org’s data into comma-separated values (CSV) files.
- [Export a Report](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.reports_export.htm&type=5&language=en_US)—Manually generate a backup of your org’s data from Salesforce Reports.
- [Data Loader](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.data_loader_about.htm&type=5&language=en_US)—Manually generate a backup of up to 5,000,000 records into a CSV file.
- [Bulk API](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_asynch.meta/api_asynch/asynch_api_intro.htm)—Create a custom backup to quickly extract and restore large data volumes.
- [Backup and Restore](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.backup_restore.htm&type=5&language=en_US)—Restore your org’s data from an automatic backup within Salesforce.
- [AppExchange](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/)—Choose from several third-party apps and solutions that backup and restore your org’s data.

![Tip](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-availability-264-0-0-production-enus/ae81c651-23b2-4682-9c7d-e47db9c3df21/images/icon_tip.png)

Tip Along with your business data, consider backing up your metadata, such as custom fields, layouts, Reports, and Apex code. See [Back Up Metadata to Protect and Restore Your Customizations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.admin_backup_metdata.htm&type=5&language=en_US) in Salesforce Help.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Architects_: Building Backup and Restore Capabilities](https://architect.salesforce.com/well-architected/adaptable/resilient#Building_Backup_and_Restore_Capabilities)
- [_Knowledge Article_: Best Practices to Backup Salesforce Data](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000386692&type=1&language=en_US)