Veeam Data Cloud for Salesforce is a fully managed Backup‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS) platform that protects Salesforce data, files, and metadata against accidental deletion, corruption, misconfigurations, and cyberattacks. Built on the foundation of Veeam Backup for Salesforce, the service delivers secure, policy‑driven protection without requiring any backup servers, databases, or storage for customers to manage.
The service provides a cloud‑native management experience, centralized oversight across multiple Salesforce orgs, and role‑based access control, allowing IT teams, Salesforce admins, and developers to collaborate securely and independently when managing backups and restores.
What’s Special About Veeam Data Cloud for Salesforce
- 100% BaaS delivery — Veeam hosts, encrypts, updates, scales, and maintains the platform for you.
- Protects Salesforce data and metadata including layouts, flows, permission sets, profiles, reports, dashboards, automation logic, custom fields, and dependencies.
- Granular + hierarchical restore — recover individual records or entire hierarchies with unlimited depth, including parent/child relationships.
- High‑frequency backup options for business‑critical objects.
- Support for multiple Salesforce orgs and sandboxes with clear RBAC separation for IT, backup admins, and Salesforce teams.
- Built‑in comparison of production vs backup versions for both records and metadata before restoring.
Key Capabilities
- Full Salesforce Data Protection
Back up:
- Records & custom objects
- Files & attachments
- Metadata (Flows, Reports, Dashboards, Profiles, Permission Sets, etc.)
- Entire object hierarchies with unlimited relational depth
- Advanced Restore Options
- Restore data AND metadata
- Restore full hierarchies
- Restore to original location, sandbox, or alternate org
- Compare versions before restoring
- Support for complex relationships including cyclic dependencies
- High‑Frequency Backups
Assign different RPOs (Backup Schedules) per object, with support for high‑frequency backups of sensitive/critical objects.
- Data Archiving
Archive Salesforce data that must be kept for compliance, while reducing Salesforce storage consumption.
- Built‑In Notifications & Monitoring
Real‑time notifications for:
- Backup completion
- Restore events
- Connection issues
- Changes in protected Salesforce data
- Client‑Side Encryption
Support for:
- Built‑in encryption keys
- AWS KMS (for customers using external key management)
- Sandbox Seeding (via Veeam data masking from the core engine)
Using the underlying engine (Veeam Backup for Salesforce), organizations can seed sandboxes using masked production data for safer testing environments.
Business Impact
- Reduce downtime caused by user errors, integrations, or automation failures.
- Recover metadata quickly, avoiding broken processes, flows, permission sets, and configurations.
- Improve compliance using audit trails, archives, record‑level retention, and off‑platform backups.
- Reduce operational risk with policy‑driven automation and role‑based administrative isolation.
- Support development & DevOps with safe sandbox seeding and metadata version comparison.
- Protect against cyberthreats including malicious deletions, corruption, or API‑driven disruptions.
Bottom Line
Veeam Data Cloud for Salesforce provides complete SaaS‑based protection for Salesforce data, files, and metadata, combining high‑frequency backups, granular restore, metadata recovery, archiving, and multi‑org management into one unified cloud platform. With secure off‑platform storage, hierarchical restores, and policy automation, it ensures your CRM remains resilient, compliant, and fully recoverable.
DBS helps organizations design and implement Veeam‑aligned Salesforce resilience strategies, from backup governance and RPO/RTO policies to restore workflows and sandbox seeding best practices ensuring business continuity across every Salesforce environment.
DBS helps organizations design and implement Veeam‑aligned Salesforce resilience strategies, from backup governance and RPO/RTO policies to restore workflows and sandbox seeding best practices ensuring business continuity across every Salesforce environment.
