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title: "Will my site be backed up before the upgrade starts?"
date: "2025-02-04T13:46:17+00:00"
summary: "Discover how Acquia safeguards your site during upgrades with regular snapshots and post-upgrade data retention for peace of mind."
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Acquia takes disaster recovery snapshots in Cloud Platform at regular intervals, including hourly for the past four hours. After the upgrade is complete, the final version of your pre-upgrade file system and database continues to persist on your Cloud Classic infrastructure in an idle state for up to 7 days. For more information, see [Cloud Platform disaster recovery](/acquia-cloud-platform/architecture/security/availability#cloud-disaster-recovery).