# ScyllaDB Cloud Backups

ScyllaDB Cloud runs a full daily backup of your databases. It backs up data to external storage - Cloud Storage
for GCP or S3 for AWS, to an S3 bucket in the same region as the node.
If you use ScyllaDB Cloud in your own account (BYOA), the backups are located under your user account.

During the backup operation, ScyllaDB Cloud deduplicates SSTables to reduce the storage space and upload time.

Backups are retained for 14 days.

## Backups After Cluster Deletion

When a cluster is deleted, its backups are retained for 1 day by default.
You can configure the retention period (up to 60 days) or disable it so that backups
are deleted immediately. See [Deleting a Cluster](https://cloud.docs.scylladb.com/stable/operate/scylla-cloud-delete-cluster.md) for details.

## Restoring a Backup

For restoring a backup from a specific date, see [Restore a cluster from backup](https://cloud.docs.scylladb.com/stable/help-and-learning/faq.md#how-to-restore-a-cluster-from-backup).