Veeam Backup for Salesforce is a self‑managed, deploy‑anywhere backup solution that gives organizations full control over the protection of Salesforce data and metadata. It safeguards against accidental deletion, integration failures, corruption, data overwrites, and malicious changes by storing backups outside Salesforce in your own environment (on‑premises or your cloud).
The solution allows image‑level and granular backups of Salesforce objects, relationships, files, attachments, and metadata with precise, dependency‑aware restoration. It also supports multi‑org environments and secure infrastructure‑level governance.
What’s Special About the On‑Prem Version
- Fully self‑managed deployment (on‑prem server or any cloud VM).
- Your storage, your rules: store backups anywhere — file systems, NAS, on‑prem S3, Azure Blob, Amazon S3, or Google Cloud Storage.
- Backs up BOTH data and metadata including Flows, Layouts, Profiles, Permission Sets, Reports, Dashboards, and more.
- Restore without Salesforce API limitations; restores do not consume API calls.
- Supports multiple Salesforce organizations from one deployment.
- Safe sandbox seeding with Data Masking (v3.1+) to protect PII.
Key Capabilities
- Comprehensive Backup of Salesforce Data & Metadata
Protects:
- Standard & custom objects
- Files & attachments
- Metadata (Flows, Reports, Layouts, Permission Sets, Profiles, Dashboards, etc.)
- Granular, Hierarchy‑Aware Recovery
- Restore a single record, a full hierarchy, or entire metadata sets
- Rebuilds parent–child and many‑to‑many relationships
- In‑place or out‑of‑place restore to another org or sandbox
- High‑Frequency, Object‑Level Backup Policies
- Multiple schedules per object
- High‑frequency capture for critical data
- Data Masking for Sandbox Seeding (v3.1)
- Mask PII using predefined or custom masking templates
- Protects regulated data during test/dev
- Version Comparison & Intelligent Recovery
- Compare backup vs live production data
- Export to CSV
- Support for person accounts, cyclic relationships, and complex object types
- Latest Enhancements (v3.1.2)
- API v63.0 support
- Enhanced restore behavior for Contract/Order, Person Accounts
- Metadata restore fixes and UI enhancements
Business Impact
- Protects Salesforce from data loss caused by user error, automation errors, API integrations, or corruption.
- Ensures compliance with long‑term retention, audit‑readiness, and data‑sovereignty requirements.
- Accelerates development & QA with safe sandbox seeding via Data Masking.
- Reduces downtime with high‑fidelity, dependency‑aware restores.
- Empowers the business with predictable, controlled recovery processes fully managed internally.
Bottom Line
Veeam Backup for Salesforce (Self‑Managed) provides complete, infrastructure‑controlled protection of Salesforce data and metadata, delivering granular restores, safe sandbox seeding, and full independence from Salesforce retention limits. DBS ensures your deployment follows Veeam‑aligned best practices standardizing storage architecture, backup policies, metadata coverage, and restore runbooks to deliver fast, compliant, and reliable Salesforce recovery.
