---
title: Database backups
nav: Backups
group: Run it
updated: 2026-11-13
description: Back up your SashiDo app's database automatically every day, restore a backup, download it, or make your own backups through the MongoDB connection string.
keywords: parse server backup, sashido database backup, mongodb backup parse, restore parse database, parse server disaster recovery
---

## Automatic Database Backups

Turn them on once, for all the apps on your account:

- a backup of every app's database **every day**, between 0:00 and 06:00 UTC;
- kept for **30 days**;
- **$25 per month per account**, whatever the number of apps or their size.

The account owner turns them on in the dashboard's **Automatic Database Backups** section. They can be activated after your first billing cycle; during the trial, add a card first.

## Restore

**Automatic Database Backups › List** shows the backups. **Restore** replaces the app's current database with the backup: everything saved after it is lost, so if in doubt, [copy the current state](#your-own-backups) first. The dashboard asks for your password to confirm. **Restore History** lists past restores.

Restoring brings back data: classes, objects, users, the schema. Files and cloud code are not in the database backup; cloud code is in your app's [GitHub repository](/en/docs/developers/cloud-code#the-repository).

## Download

**Download** next to a backup gets you a copy of the database, to keep elsewhere or to inspect locally. **Download History** lists who downloaded which backup, and when.

## Your own backups

The database is yours. **App Settings › Security & Keys › Database URL** is its MongoDB connection string, so standard tools work, e.g.:

```bash
mongodump --uri "<Database URL>" --out ./backup-$(date +%F)
```

Keep the Database URL as secret as the master key: it gives full access to your data.