Backups

The database Backups page shows the automatic daily backups and any manually created backups you’ve made of your database. You can also restore a backup, create a new manual backup, or delete a manual backup.

Database backups are excluded when calculating your total disk space (i.e. storage).

Daily Backups

Databases are automatically backed up daily, and each backup is stored for 7 days.

Automatic daily database backups in MyKinsta.
Automatic daily database backups in MyKinsta.

Manual Backups

You can manually create a database backup at any time, up to 5 manual backups, which are stored for 14 days. If you need to make more than 5 manual backups in 14 days, you’ll need to delete one of the manual backups to make room for a new one.

To create a manual backup, click Backup now, enter a note to identify your backup (required), and click Create manual backup.

Manual database backups in MyKinsta.
Manual database backups in MyKinsta.

Restore a Backup

You can restore automatic or manual backups in MyKinsta.

To restore a backup, click Restore next to the backup you want to restore, enter the database name, and click Restore backup.

Restore a database backup.
Restore a database backup.

The restoration may take several minutes or more, depending on the size of your database.

Backup restoration progress.
Backup restoration progress.
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