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# Backing up and Restoring Projects - FAC Edition Only

If you are using FICO® Platform, your projects are automatically backed up.

To review the status of your backups, click Admin on the main Xpress Workbench menu. The Backup status page is displayed for the current component—Xpress Workbench. It presents a list of backups, their Start times, their Status and their Durations.

Backups are only made when it is detected that a project changes. They occur daily for up to the last 3 days, and then weekly for up to the last 5 weeks. If you have been working consistently on several projects, you are likely to see up to eight backups per project.

Click View logs to see a detailed log of a backup's execution - if an error has occurred, it will contain further information.

Click Backup Archive in the left-hand menu and select your project in the Project drop-down list to see a list of backups for a specific project. Click Download backup to download the backup file, a gzipped tar file.

Expand the archive in a convenient location on your local machine and the backup files are available for your use.

Parent Topic Working with Projects

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