Export backup data

Your organization can sign up to receive backup files of your data. Here, you can export all your organization's data into a set of CSV files.

With the data export feature, you can generate backup files manually once every six days or schedule them to generate automatically at weekly or monthly intervals.

Note

The weekly export service is available in Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition. The Developer Edition provides a monthly export service. When the export is ready, you will receive an e-mail with a link; navigate to the link provided.

To schedule a weekly or monthly export (as governed by the edition of Salesforce CRM that you are using), navigate to Setup | Data Management | Data Export. Then click on either the Export Now or Schedule Export buttons, as shown in the following screenshot:

The data export can be set to run immediately or scheduled to run in the future, as discussed in the following subsections.

Export Now

The Export Now option prepares your files for...