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When native Salesforce backup coverage falls short, Sesame Software gives mid-market and enterprise IT teams automated data protection with fast recovery — and your backup data stays in your environment, under your control.
Most Salesforce backup solutions store your data on vendor infrastructure. That means your business continuity plan depends on a third party's availability, security posture, and data retention policies — not your own. Sesame Software writes backup data directly to your storage. When you need it, you access it directly.
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Self-Hosted Salesforce Data Backup
This is an architectural decision, not a marketing claim. Sesame Software installs in your environment and writes backup data directly to your storage. There is no Sesame cloud intermediary and no data passing through our infrastructure.
Your backup data is always accessible and under your control. Self-hosted backup ensures your data remains in your hands, eliminating the risk of being locked out of your own records during a vendor cloud outage.
Deployment Options
Deploy to your existing AWS environment. Backup data sits in your own S3 bucket, under your own IAM policies, governed by your own retention and lifecycle rules.
Deploy to your existing Azure environment. Backup data sits in your own Blob container, under your own access controls and governance policies.
Keep backup data entirely within your own data center for organizations with strict data residency requirements that prohibit backup data from leaving the corporate network.
Recognized by the People Who Use Us
Enterprise IT teams consistently rate Sesame Software for best support, highest user adoption, and fastest implementation.
Native Salesforce Backup Coverage
Salesforce discontinued their data recovery service in 2020. Their current native backup options — the weekly data export and the optional Backup and Restore add-on — have meaningful limitations that leave enterprise IT teams exposed.
Salesforce's built-in export runs once a week at most. For enterprise IT teams, a week of data loss exposure is not an acceptable recovery point objective.
Native options restore from the most recent export only. There is no way to restore to a specific moment before an incident occurred.
Native exports produce flat CSV files. Relationships between records are not preserved — restoring a parent record does not automatically restore its child records.
Native Salesforce backup does not cover org configuration. Fields, flows, layouts, and validation rules are not included in any native backup option.
The Salesforce Backup and Restore add-on stores data on Salesforce infrastructure. For organizations with data residency or sovereignty requirements, this may not be sufficient.
Salesforce Security and Data Protection
Salesforce data backup is not just a recovery tool — it is a component of your organization's broader security posture. Ransomware, insider threats, and accidental mass deletions all require a tested, accessible backup to recover from.
A backup that lives on vendor infrastructure introduces a dependency that a vendor outage can disrupt at exactly the moment you need it most. Self-hosted backup ensures your data remains in your hands, giving your IT team complete Salesforce data protection without losing custody of your records.
Recovery Time and Recovery Point
Recovery time objective and recovery point objective are your organization's decisions — not your backup vendor's. With Sesame Software's automated backup and self-hosted deployment, your IT team controls both.
Sesame Software backs up your Salesforce data as frequently as every 5 minutes — simply configure your schedule and let the platform run. For most enterprise IT teams, a maximum data loss window of 5 minutes is a significant improvement over daily or weekly backup alternatives. Your RPO is your decision — set the schedule that fits your business requirements.
Because your backup data is stored in your own infrastructure, recovery does not depend on a vendor's response time or system availability. Your IT team accesses the backup directly, executes a point-in-time restore, and recovers affected records in minutes. Recovery speed is determined by your infrastructure and your team — not ours.
Salesforce Data Backup Features
Automated backup, fast recovery, and self-hosted deployment — all the capabilities enterprise IT teams need for Salesforce data protection and business continuity.
Configure your backup schedule and let Sesame Software run it automatically. Backup frequency as high as every 5 minutes gives your IT team a recovery point that minimizes data loss exposure without manual intervention.
Restore any Salesforce record, field, or parent/child hierarchy to any point in its history. Select the exact moment before an incident — not just the most recent backup. Recovery takes minutes, not days.
Sesame Software installs in your environment and writes backup data to your own storage — AWS S3, Azure Blob, or on-premise. Your data never passes through our servers. Full custody, full control.
Parent/child relationships are preserved and restored automatically. Accounts come back with their Contacts, Opportunities, and Cases — all linked exactly as they were. No manual re-association required.
Every backup job and every restore operation is logged with timestamps and record counts. Your compliance team gets a complete, auditable record of data protection activity to support regulatory requirements.
Sesame Software backs up your Salesforce org configuration alongside your records — fields, flows, layouts, and automation. The visual compare feature shows exactly what changed between any two configuration snapshots.
Trusted by Enterprise IT Teams
"Sesame Software makes backup and recovery convenient by generating daily and full backups, allowing you to restore data to any specific date and time. Since Salesforce's own backup and recovery features require a paid subscription, this extra functionality from Sesame Software is especially valuable."
"The Sesame Software tool was helpful during the recovery process. Although we deleted a few files, the tool made backup recovery easier. The support from the Sesame Software team was available whenever we needed it."
"The out of the box features you get with Sesame Software — history tracking, logs, deleted records — are great to have. Loads run fast, keeps our downstream DB in sync with our Salesforce environment."
Self-Hosted Salesforce Backup With BYOS Control
Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS) means your Salesforce backup data lives in your environment — your AWS S3 bucket, your Azure Blob container, or your on-premise infrastructure. Sesame Software installs in your environment, writes backup data directly to your storage, and never touches your data in transit or at rest. BYOS control gives enterprise IT teams and Salesforce administrators complete authority over where their data lives, who can access it, and how long it's retained.
BYOS control covers your full Salesforce data protection footprint — record-level backup, metadata backup, granular restore, and a complete audit trail. Every component of your Salesforce backup and recovery strategy runs in your infrastructure, not a vendor's.
For organizations with HIPAA, GDPR, or other data residency obligations, BYOS is often a requirement rather than a preference. Sesame Software's self-hosted architecture ensures your Salesforce backup data never leaves your controlled environment — a critical requirement for regulated industries.
BYOS control extends to your Salesforce org configuration — fields, flows, layouts, and validation rules are backed up alongside your records. The visual compare feature shows exactly what changed between any two configuration snapshots, all stored in your own environment.
Because your backup data lives in your storage, granular restore operations — field-level, record-level, or full hierarchy — execute directly against your infrastructure. No vendor API call required to recover your data. Your backup is always accessible, even independently of the Sesame Software application.
Common Questions
Salesforce data security and compliance for regulated industries requires both preventive protection and fast recovery capability. Sesame Software addresses both: automated backups as frequently as every five minutes minimize data loss exposure from user errors, accidental deletions, or failed integrations, while self-hosted deployment keeps your Salesforce backup data in your own infrastructure — supporting HIPAA compliance and GDPR compliance data residency requirements. When user error prevention fails and something goes wrong, granular point-in-time restore lets your IT team recover a single record or field in minutes without disrupting live data or requiring a full org restore. For compliance-focused enterprise IT teams, this combination of IT data protection and fast recovery is what Salesforce data security and compliance actually demands.
Yes. Sesame Software's self-hosted deployment keeps your Salesforce backup data within your own infrastructure — never on Sesame servers — which is a foundational requirement for healthcare data compliance under HIPAA. Your backup data is stored in your own AWS S3, Azure Blob, or on-premise environment, under your own access controls, with a full audit log of every backup and recovery operation. This gives healthcare IT teams a cloud backup solution that meets data residency and cloud backup regulations without sacrificing Salesforce-specific recovery capability.
Sesame Software supports AWS S3 and Azure Blob as cloud backup destinations for Salesforce data — as well as on-premise storage for organizations that require data to remain within their own data center. As a cloud backup solution, Sesame Software gives enterprise IT teams complete control over where Salesforce backup data is stored, how long it is retained, and who can access it. This flexibility supports enterprise data management requirements across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments without locking your data into a vendor's infrastructure.
Self-hosted Salesforce backup with BYOS (Bring Your Own Storage) control means your Salesforce backup data is written directly to your own storage infrastructure — AWS S3, Azure Blob, or on-premise — rather than a vendor's cloud. Sesame Software installs in your environment, runs all backup and recovery operations locally, and never stores your data on Sesame servers. BYOS control gives enterprise IT teams and Salesforce administrators complete authority over data residency, access controls, and retention policy.
Because Sesame Software writes backup data directly to your own storage environment, your Salesforce data never leaves your controlled infrastructure. This self-hosted architecture supports HIPAA, GDPR, and other data residency compliance requirements by ensuring backup data remains within your organization's governance boundary — accessible only to your team, under your access controls, and subject to your retention policies.
Salesforce discontinued their data recovery service in 2020. Their current native options — the weekly data export and the optional Backup and Restore add-on — have significant limitations including infrequent backup windows, no point-in-time restore, flat file exports that don't preserve record relationships, and vendor-stored data. Sesame Software addresses all of these gaps.
Sesame Software installs in your environment and writes backup data directly to your own storage — AWS S3, Azure Blob, or on-premise. Your backup data never passes through or is stored on Sesame Software servers. Your data remains in your custody and under your access controls at all times.
Sesame Software provides automated backup as frequently as every 5 minutes, point-in-time restore for any record or field, and self-hosted deployment so your backup data is always in your infrastructure. This gives IT teams control over both their recovery point objective and their data custody — critical components of a Salesforce business continuity plan.
Sesame Software supports Amazon S3 and Azure Blob for cloud storage, as well as on-premise storage within your own data center. This allows IT teams to keep backup data within their existing infrastructure and under their own data governance policies.
Because Sesame Software writes backup data directly to your own storage infrastructure, your data remains within your corporate environment and subject to your data governance policies. This is particularly relevant for organizations with strict data residency requirements that prohibit backup data from being stored on third-party vendor infrastructure.
Self-hosted deployment, automated protection, and fast recovery — in your environment, on your infrastructure, giving your IT team complete Salesforce data protection without losing custody of your data.
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