PowerSEC's automatic cloud backups use a GFS (grandfather-father-son) schedule that keeps storage and transfer small while protecting every day:
How it works
- Weekly full backup — a complete snapshot (database + all files) is taken on a regular cadence (about every 7 days).
- Daily differential — between fulls, each daily backup captures only the files that changed since the last full, plus a complete database. So every restore point still restores your whole site.
- Restore points — a full and each differential each count as one daily recovery point against your plan's restore-point limit (e.g. 1 full + 6 differentials = 7 points on a 7-point plan).
Why a full database every day?
Database changes are hard to capture incrementally and the database is what holds your posts, orders, users, and settings. Keeping it full on every restore point means any day you pick restores cleanly — you never have to replay a database chain.
Retention is chain-safe
Old restore points roll out oldest-first, but PowerSEC never deletes a full backup while a differential still depends on it, and always keeps the most recent full. Your restores can't be broken by retention.
Restoring
Restoring a differential automatically pulls its base full's files, replays the day's changed files and deletions, and applies that day's database — all handled for you. Nothing extra to do.