CMS (Formerly Content Manager): Restoring Collections with Backups

Safeguard your collections effortlessly with CMS (Content Management System) backups. Automatic backups store weekly archived copies of all your collections, while manual backups allow you to instantly save your collections. You can restore backups to undo collection changes made after the backup date. 

Whenever you edit a collection, an automatic backup stores an archived copy of all your collections on a weekly basis. You can also create manual backups whenever you want to instantly save a copy of all your collections. Each backup includes all your collections' content, structure fields, settings, and named views. 

When you restore a backup, you choose whether to restore all your collections or specific ones. Restoring a collection permanently deletes any changes made to the collection after the backup was created. This includes site visitor submissions saved after the backup date. 

Create manual backups when you want to instantly create archived copies of all your collections. You can create up to 3 manual backups. If you already have 3 manual backups, you can still create another one that will override your oldest manual backup. 

You can restore both automatic and manual backups of all your collections. When restoring a backup, you can choose to restore all your collections saved in the backup or only specific collections. All the fields, content, structure, and settings of the selected collections are restored. 

Restoring a backup saves over any changes made to the selected collections that occurred after the backup date. If you created new collections after a backup date, and you restore the backup, those new collections do not get removed. 

Wix App collections are not affected by backups as they get their content from the relevant app (e.g. Wix Stores, Wix Bookings, Wix Events). 

Click below for answers to our most frequently asked questions about backups.