Backups

Settings → Backups exports everything in your account to one archive: your files, folders, notes and short links. Use it to keep a copy, or to move your account to another Fileship server.

Manual backups

• Create makes a backup in the background. It appears in the list when it is ready.
• Download saves the archive (.tgz).
• Upload adds a backup archive from your computer, for example one made on another server. You can then restore it.
• Delete removes a backup.

Automatic backups

Under Automatic backups, choose a Schedule (Off, Every day or Every week), the Day and Time in your time zone, and how many Backups to keep. After each new automatic backup, the oldest automatic ones beyond that number are deleted. Backups you create or upload yourself are never deleted automatically.

Your account's backup limit counts both kinds. When manual backups alone fill it, a scheduled backup is skipped (Skipped … because the backup limit is reached). Next backup and Last backup show what happens next and what happened last.

If the admin turned scheduled backups off for the server, the page says so; your schedule is kept and starts again when they turn them back on.

Restoring

Restore replaces your current data with the backup: your current files, folders, notes and short links are deleted first. Restoring runs in the background and can take a while for large accounts; while it runs, the server does not update itself.

• Files that do not fit in your storage limit make the restore fail before anything is changed.
• Restored items always belong to you, even when the backup came from another account.
• Not restored: who you shared folders with and linked single sign-on accounts.

Limits

Each user's backup limit is set by an admin on the Users page (Backups, -1 for unlimited). Admins have no limit. Backups are stored on the active storage.