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title: Back up and recover services | Tiger Data Docs
description: Protect your data with automatic backups and cross-region protection
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Tiger Cloud provides comprehensive backup and recovery solutions to protect your data, including automatic daily backups, cross-region protection, and point-in-time recovery.

## Automatic backups

Tiger Cloud automatically handles backup for your Tiger Cloud services using the `pgBackRest` tool. You don’t need to perform backups manually. What’s more, with [cross-region backup](#enable-cross-region-backup), you are protected when an entire AWS region goes down.

Tiger Cloud automatically creates one full backup every week, and incremental backups every day in the same region as your service. Additionally, all [Write-Ahead Log (WAL)](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-intro.html) files are retained back to the oldest full backup. This means that you always have a full backup available for the current and previous week:

![Database backup and recovery architecture in Tiger Cloud](/_astro/database-backup-recovery.DHoYmo-Y_ZQahY2.webp)

On [Scale and Enterprise](/deploy/tiger-cloud/tiger-cloud-aws/pricing-and-account-management/index.md) pricing plans, you can check the list of backups for the previous 14 days in Tiger Console. To do so, select your service, then click `Operations` > `Backup and restore` > `Backup history`.

In the event of a storage failure, a service automatically recovers from a backup to the point of failure. If the whole availability zone goes down, your Tiger Cloud services are recovered in a different zone. In the event of a user error, you can [create a point-in-time recovery fork](../service-management/fork-services).

## Enable cross-region backup

Note

Cross-region backup is available on [Enterprise](/deploy/tiger-cloud/tiger-cloud-aws/pricing-and-account-management/index.md) pricing plan.

For added reliability, you can enable cross-region backup. This protects your data when an entire AWS region goes down. In this case, you have two identical backups of your service at any time, but one of them is in a different AWS region. Cross-region backups are updated daily and weekly in the same way as a regular backup. You can have one cross-region backup for a service.

You enable cross-region backup when you create a service, or configure it for an existing service in Tiger Console:

1. **Select your service and open backup settings**

   In [Console](https://console.cloud.tigerdata.com/dashboard/services), select your service and click `Operations` > `Backup & restore`.

2. **Enable cross-region backup**

   In `Cross-region backup`, select the region in the dropdown and click `Enable backup`.

   ![Creating a cross-region backup in Tiger Console](/_astro/create-cross-region-backup-in-tiger-console.CGDp6LDi_1HsOPq.webp)

   You can now see the backup, its region, and creation date in a list.

You can have one cross-region backup per service. To change the region of your backup:

1. **Open backup settings for your service**

   In [Console](https://console.cloud.tigerdata.com/dashboard/services), select your service and click `Operations` > `Backup & restore`.

2. **Disable the existing backup**

   Click the trash icon next to the existing backup to disable it.

   ![Cross-region backup list in Tiger Console](/_astro/cross-region-backup-list-in-tiger-console.DtjFvbaZ_ZQDFSF.webp)

3. **Create a new backup in a different region**