PBworks takes data storage very seriously, and backups of your workspace are constantly made behind the scenes to prevent data loss in the event of a catastrophic system failure.  We monitor our servers very closely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 366 days a year (leap year!), so you can rest assured that your data is safe on PBworks.

However, you may still want to make a backup of your particular workspace. For technical reasons, our backups are never made available to the public, or our customers, for any reason. They are only accessible by PBwiki Inc., and only in the event of a problem with our system. 

In order for you to make a backup of your own workspace, so that you can keep it and access it anytime you want, just follow these steps:

Making a Local Backup

1. Click Settings in the upper right corner of the workspace.  If you don't see the Settings link, then you don't sufficient privleges to make a backup of the workspace.

   

2. Click Backup, on the left hand side.

   

3. You'll see the backup button with three options. 

• Include current versions of all pages
  • This option, to get the current version of all pages of your workspace, is automatically enabled, and cannot be disabled.
• Include previous versions
  • You can manually check the second option so that your back up includes all data from all previous versions of the page.
• Include files 
  • Checking the option to include files will include your uploaded files in the downloaded ZIP archive.  Please note that this option will drastically increase the amount of time it takes to download the backup, depending on how big your uploaded files are.

Once you've checked the options you want, click the "Download Backup" button to start the download.

Backup Limitations

Currently, the backup system will only backup pages and files (if that option is checked) on the workspace.  Comments, workspace settings, users, and user security settings are not included in this backup.

Restoring a workspace page from a Backup file

To recover from an accidental deletion, you can restore a page from a .ZIP Backup by following these steps:

1. Open the .ZIP file.
2. Open the "RAW" folder.
3. Find the page that you'd like to restore and open the text file.
4. Select and copy all text.
5. Create a new workspace page.
6. Click on the "Source" button to access the workspace's source code.
7. Paste the "RAW" page content.
8. Exit the "Source" view to confirm that you copied and pasted everything.
9. Click on the "Save" button to complete the page restoration.