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title: "How We Manage Backups and Disaster Recovery"
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description: "Backup Strategy Automated Daily Backups: We perform full and incremental backups of critical data and application states on a daily schedule. Retention Policy: Backup snapshots are retained for 7 to 30 days, depending on project SLA, with long-term archiving available…"
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# How do you manage backups and disaster recovery? Are backups encrypted?

###### **Backup Strategy**

- **Automated Daily Backups**: We perform full and incremental backups of critical data and application states on a daily schedule.
- **Retention Policy**: Backup snapshots are retained for 7 to 30 days, depending on project SLA, with long-term archiving available for enterprise clients.
- **Multi-Region Storage**: Backups are stored across redundant data centers (within the EU by default), ensuring resilience against local failures.

###### **Encryption & Security**

- **At Rest**: All backups are encrypted using **AES-256** encryption before storage.
- **In Transit**: Backups are transferred over secure channels (TLS 1.2+).
- **Access Control**: Access to backups is tightly restricted and logged, with MFA required for restores.
- **Integrity Checks**: Hash validation ensures backup data integrity before and after restore.

###### **Disaster Recovery**

- **RPO & RTO Targets**: Typical RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is under 24 hours, and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) ranges from 1–4 hours depending on the system tier.
- **Restore Testing**: We conduct regular DR drills and restore verifications (monthly or quarterly depending on criticality).
- **Failover Options**: For critical apps, we support DNS-based or load balancer-based automatic failover between regions.