From 1ef6571e9665efdd91a57f78a14d2e112e07324a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Geens <jgeens@cern.ch>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:16:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added explanation on backup retention

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 docs/web/data-security/index.md | 8 ++++++++
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 All files deleted from your personal space will land on the Trashbin and stay there for 6 months. Admins of a project can also see the trashbin of their project spaces, as described in [Projects](../projects/index.md)
 
+## Backup
+CERNBox keeps multiple backups of your data. Concretely, backups are kept for the following periods:
 
+- 7 daily backups (so, a snapshot for every day of the last week)
+- 5 weekly backups (so, a snapshot for every week for the last five weeks)
+- 6 monthly backups (so, a snapshot for every month for the last six months)
+- one backup of the last state of your CERNBox when you leave CERN
+
+As such, we can restore files only for up to six months. In case you would like to restore something from backup, please reach out to the CERNBox support team via a SNOW ticket.
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