Backup Retention Policy

Service Backup Type Frequency Retention Period
Shared Hosting File-system backup Daily at 02:00 WAT 7 days
  Full backup Weekly (Sunday 02:00 WAT) 4 weeks
  Full backup Monthly (1st @ 03:00 WAT) 12 months
VPS & Dedicated Snapshot Daily at 03:00 WAT 7 days
  Snapshot Weekly (Sunday 04:00 WAT) 4 weeks
  Snapshot Monthly (1st @ 04:00 WAT) 12 months
Virtual Machines Snapshot Daily at 04:00 WAT 30 days
  Snapshot Weekly (Sunday 05:00 WAT) 12 weeks
  Snapshot Monthly (1st @ 05:00 WAT) 12 months
Databases (all) Incremental backup Hourly 24 hours
  Full backup Daily at 01:00 WAT 30 days
  Full backup Weekly (Sunday 01:00 WAT) 12 weeks
  Full backup Monthly (1st @ 01:00 WAT) 12 months
Off-site Backups Full backups off-site Weekly 12 months
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