Introduction

this guide outlines the standard procedures for managing your organisation's geospatial data backups the backup manager provides a secure environment to schedule retention tasks, monitor storage usage and restore services when necessary why backup manager? arcgis online is a powerful cloud platform for managing and sharing geospatial data but like any cloud hosted environment it is not immune to data loss accidental edits, bulk update errors, schema changes or user mistakes can compromise the integrity of your live feature services and key datasets without a dedicated backup solution recovering from these incidents can be time consuming, costly and in some cases impossible the backup manager for arcgis online addresses this gap by providing a purpose built tool for safeguarding your organisation's geospatial assets it integrates directly with your arcgis online environment allowing you to create on demand snapshots of feature services, web maps and applications schedule automated recurring backups to ensure consistent data protection without manual intervention monitor storage usage and backup activity through a clear, intuitive dashboard download geodatabase copies of your data for offline archiving or compliance purposes restore feature services to a previous state with a single click, minimising downtime and data loss by incorporating the backup manager into your data management workflows, you establish a robust safety net that protects against human error, supports disaster recovery planning and ensures business continuity for your gis operations trial license to get started, create an account on our staging environment at https //arcgisbackup com/dashboard https //testing arcgisbackup com/dashboard and follow the prompts until you reach the homepage once you have done this, email uk\@avineon tensing com mailto\ uk\@avineon tensing com and we will provision storage to your account the trial gives you full access to backup manager so you can test backup and restore workflows with your own data note the arcgis marketplace was retired by esri in march 2026 access to the backup manager through the marketplace is no longer possible