# Backups and restore
Source: https://docs.infraista.com/en/data-storage/databases/backups-and-restore



Every database on the server is backed up automatically. Open the database and select **Backups**.

## Backup settings [#backup-settings]

Under **Backup settings**:

* **Scheduled backups**: **Daily** (included), **Hourly** (adds a percentage of the database price, shown
  on the page), or **Off** (back up manually only).
* **Backup window (UTC)**: when the daily backup runs.
* **Keep automatic backups for**: **7 days** is included in the plan. Longer retention uses extra backup
  storage, billed per GB per month on your invoice.

Select **Save settings**. Backups are encrypted and stored in the database's region.

## Back up now [#back-up-now]

Select **Back up now**. If the server holds several databases, pick the ones to back up. Each database
gets its own backup, and they appear in the list as they finish. Manual backups stay until you delete them.

## Verify and download [#verify-and-download]

On a completed backup:

* **Verify backup** checks that the backup can be restored, and shows **Verified** with the time.
* **Download backup** saves a copy, for example to keep it elsewhere.

## Restore a backup [#restore-a-backup]

1. Select **Restore** on the backup.
2. Under **Restore into**, choose:
   * **A new database**: the backup becomes a new database with the name you give it, same plan, region
     and engine, billed as a separate database. The current one isn't changed.
   * **This database**: everything in it is replaced with the backup's contents. Changes made since the
     backup are lost, and connections may be interrupted while it restores.
3. Confirm.

<Callout type="warn">
  Restoring into this database replaces all its data with the backup's. Take a manual
  backup first if you might need the current data.
</Callout>

**Restores and checks** follows each restore and verification until it finishes, with its log. When a
restore finishes, open the **Data Explorer** to check the data.

## Related [#related]

* [Data Explorer and SQL console](/en/data-storage/databases/data-explorer-and-sql-console)