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title: Backups
eleventyNavigation:
  key: Backups
  parent: Web Hosting
  order: 7
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A backup of your files, databases and e-mails is made **daily** and is available from the `/home/[account]/admin/backup` directory in your account. These backups are retained for a *rolling* number of days, depending on the chosen plan:

| Public Cloud ||||| Private Cloud ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Small | Medium | Large | X-Large | Dedicated servers | Gold servers |
| 3 days | 7 days | 20 days | 20 days | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |

Regardless the taken plan, backups are stored in a *dedicated datacenter* that is several kilometers away from the production center, using another provider.

You can restore [a website](/en/docs/web-hosting/backups/restore-a-site) or [e-mails](/en/docs/web-hosting/backups/restore-e-mails) from the **Advanced > Restore backups** tab in your administration interface.

> [!NOTE]
> Backups are not counted as part of an account’s disk space quota.


> [!TIP]
> The archived contents (e.g. BDD dumps) in your *backup* space are in [Zstandard](https://github.com/facebook/zstd) format, you can use the [official `zstd*` tools](https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/latest) or the [adapted plugin for 7zip](https://www.tc4shell.com/en/7zip/modern7z/) to manipulate them.


- [alwaysdata Disaster Recovery Plan](/en/docs/technical-specifications/drp)