Veeam Backup for Salesforce

There’s no arguing the growth and business criticality of Salesforce data, yet organizations rarely back it up. Even though Salesforce hosts its own infrastructure, this doesn’t replace the customer’s responsibility to protect themselves from data loss and data corruption. 

Most Salesforce data loss and corruption incidents can go unnoticed for days, weeks or even longer. Reasons for this include human error, integration issues, accidental or malicious data corruption and poor data hygiene.

• Can you restore your Salesforce data? Dec 1, 2022 - 2 min read 

Salesforce recommends that their customers develop a Salesforce backup strategy as a part of their overall data management and security model. Even with the best intentions, human error, integration issues, accidental or malicious data corruption and other data loss issues can occur. Backing up your Salesforce data provides you with complete control and easier access to restores after these incidents happen.

1. Human Error - Administrator

2. Human Error - User

3. Human Error - Developer

4. Human Error - Over-priviledged Users

5. Humam Error - Salesforce

6. Integration Error

7. Data Corruption - Accidental

8. Data Corruption - Malicious

9. Poor Data Hygiene

"Salesforce data specifically refers to all your business data residing inside of Salesforce. This includes Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, Contracts, custom object records, files, attachments and much more."

"Salesforce metadata refers to all your configuration settings, such as custom fields, reports, dashboards, page layouts and custom code like Apex and Visualforce. It also includes the interdependencies and hierarchy of Salesforce data. For example, an Account has certain Contacts, Opportunities and Contracts connected to it. Think of Salesforce metadata as the glue that connects everything together. When something is deleted, lost or corrupt in Salesforce, so is the metadata. So, when restoring Salesforce data, it is critically important that the metadata is also restored and reconnected. For a salesforce backup solution to be effective, it must also be a metadata backup solution."

• Who should back up Salesforce? - Nov 21, 2022 - 2 min to read

What is the Veeam Backup for Salesforce?

• "Veeam Backup for Salesforce eliminates the risk of losing your Salesforce data and metadata — so that your business is reliably protected with automated backups and stress‑free recovery."

• "Organizations must unfortunately accept the reality that their business is vulnerable to data loss, so they need to protect their Salesforce data immediately."

• Veeam Announces Veeam Backup for Salesforce on Salesforce AppExchange, the World's Leading Enterprise Cloud Marketplace 

Veeam Backup for Salesforce includes...

• "Salesforce-native backup: Purpose-built to backup and restore Salesforce data and metadata using native APIs"

• "Fast and flexible recovery: Recover Salesforce records, hierarchies, fields, files and metadata."

• "Not a SaaS backup vendor: Complete control of your data. Avoid lock-in and deploy it anywhere."

Veeam Backup for Salesforce – Integrating With Azure Active Directory for RBAC