For all the benefits that digital data brings, it remains unpredictable at best and hundreds of things can go wrong with it. Ensuring timely backups, however, make an effective solution against such contingencies. Salesforce has an advanced disaster-recovery system in place, catering to just about every disaster scenario. The chance of data loss owing to mistakes at the Salesforce end of the ecosystem, or due to natural calamities, is almost zero. In fact, nothing short of a global apocalypse, in which eventuality the data would be meaningless anyway, would result in Salesforce clients losing their data. Irrespective, it still makes sense for Salesforce users to back-up data on local hard drives. Read the blog in detail http://suyati.com/guide-creating-backups-of-salesforce-data/

1. Save Time, Save
Bucks, Backup your
Salesforce Data

2. On a more serious note..
Salesforce has an advanced disaster-recovery system in place,
catering to just about every disaster scenario. The chance of data
loss owing to mistakes at the Salesforce end of the ecosystem, or
due to natural calamities, is almost zero.
In fact, nothing short of a global apocalypse, in which eventuality
the data would be meaningless anyway, would result in Salesforce
clients losing their data. Irrespective, it still makes sense for
Salesforce users to back-up data on local hard drives.

3. Why Back Up?

4. The disaster contingencies in
place at Salesforce protect
only the back-end. This does
not make Salesforce clients
immune to issues such as
power outages, hardware
failure, accidental deletion,
careless employees,
deliberate sabotage by
disgruntled employees, and
more at their own end. Such
issues can result in lost data.

5. What does it mean in terms of Time and Money?
Salesforce has to do the recovery service manually and charges a
recovery fee – a whopping USD 10,000 per organization
The data can be recovered only for the previous 90 days, and
takes a minimum of 20 days
It takes about 10 days to conduct an “end-to-end” rewind of the
server. By this time, retrieved data may be obsolete anyway

6. How to back up and
recover data?

7. 1. Use the Salesforce Data Export Service
Trace the following path
Setup
Administration
Setup
Data Mgmt
Data export

8. 2. Use Data Loader
Use the Data Loader to export data to the desired location. Data Loader
is available for all API enabled organizations, and by default to all
Enterprise Edition users and above
Open
DataLoader
Export
Download

9. 3. Use Reports
Export required data as a report. Create a new report containing
data selected for backup, and export the report to the desktop or
any other desired destination. Select.csv format for the exported
file.
4. Use a Partner Solution
The AppExchange features many partner backup solutions that aid
the backup process by automating the processes or making the
processes easy. Such apps also offer a good workaround to the
once-every-six-days manually or weekly automatic backup
restrictions that the Salesforce export service imposes.

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