How do I back up and restore a site on Faaaster?

The site's Backups tab lists your backups and lets you create one on demand with New Backup, or bring one back with Restore. Daily backups are included in every plan.

Creating a backup

1. Open the site, Backups tab.
2. Click New Backup.

This is the step to take before any risky operation: plugin update, code change, database import.

Restoring

1. Open the site, Backups tab.
2. Find the backup you want in the list.
3. Click Restore.

Restoring replaces the site's current state. Everything done since the chosen backup is lost.

Good to know

• Daily backups are included in every plan, Dev included.
• Archiving a site deletes all of its backups: export whatever you want to keep beforehand.
• With the Viewer role, you can view the tab but its buttons are grayed out.

Restoring only part of the site

The restore window offers a Perimeter:

• Files and database — the full restore;
• Database only — to undo a content change without touching the code;
• Files only — to roll back a plugin or theme without losing the content published since.

The safety net before restoring

The window checks "Back up the current state before restoring (recommended)" by default, which lets you undo the restore if the result isn't what you wanted.

Leave this box checked. It's what makes the restore reversible. If the preliminary backup fails, the interface tells you and lets you choose to restore without a safety net rather than doing it behind your back.

How many backups are kept?

All of those from the last 30 days. Beyond that, the restore points become sparser: one backup per week over the previous 12 weeks, one per month over the 9 months before that, one for the previous year, plus the site's very first backup.

The cleanup only happens after a fresh backup is ready: the site is never left without a valid set of backups.

⚠️ Your manual backups follow the same rule. They are all kept for 30 days; after that, only one backup is kept per week then per month, whether it is manual or daily.

To keep a specific state, export it and download the files: they stay on Faaaster for 7 days, but your own copy never expires.

When are daily backups taken?

At night, between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. Paris time. Each site gets its own slot within this window, spread out so that everything doesn't start at the same minute.

👉 How do I export my site?

Updated on: 10/03/2026