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# Overview

Veeam Backup for Salesforce is a solution developed for data and metadata protection for the Salesforce SaaS platform. With Veeam Backup for Salesforce, you can do the following:

- Run your backup environment anywhere: on-premises, in AWS, Microsoft Azure and so on.
- Protect multiple Salesforce organizations with one installation.
- Back up Salesforce files, data and metadata.
- Encrypt data on the client side with original (built-in) or AWS KMS keys.
- Configure flexible backup schedules for different Salesforce objects to meet the desired RPOs.
- Create high-frequency, near-continuous backups of specific objects.
- Restore files, data and metadata including object hierarchies and custom fields.
- Restore files, fields, records and objects of entire Salesforce organizations.
- Restore data and metadata (including Reports, Profiles, Permission sets, Flows and so on).
- Restore object hierarchy to an unlimited level of depth.
- Restore child and parent relationships.
- Archive data that is no longer needed but must be retained for future reference or regulatory compliance reasons.
- Configure granular retention settings at the object level.
- Compare versions of production Salesforce records with versions of backed-up records stored in repositories.
- Compare versions of production Salesforce metadata with versions of backed-up metadata stored in repositories to see line-by-line differences.
- Create real-time alerts for backup, recovery, licensing and connection issues, as well as for any changes in protected data.
- Use Microsoft Entra ID or Salesforce as a single sign-on (SSO) provider to log in the product Web UI.
- Leverage role-based access control (RBAC) if connected using an SSO provider.