Kiryl Haradzenski

Ask where your Salesforce backup actually lives, and the answer is usually "somewhere in the vendor's cloud, in a format you'll see only if you ever need a restore." That's fine — right up until you want to query it, report on it, prove what changed, or simply own your own data.

mtdt.io's smart data backup takes a different stance: your Salesforce records are backed up into your own PostgreSQL database — a real, queryable database you control, with a full history of every backup, ready to restore back into an org.

You back up your metadata. You back up your records. But there's a third pile of data most teams never protect: Files — the attachments, uploaded documents, images, and signed PDFs stored as Salesforce Content Versions. They're often the largest data in the org, the most expensive to store, and the least backed up.

mtdt.io backs them up to your own S3 — a copy of your Salesforce files in storage you control.

Salesforce DevOps Center was a genuine leap forward. It dragged teams off change sets, put Git at the center of releases, and made source-driven development approachable for admins and devs alike — for free. If you're using it today, you made a good call.

But there's a pattern almost every growing team runs into: somewhere around the 6–12 month mark, DevOps Center starts to feel less like a platform and more like a ceiling. DevOps Center is a starting point, and outgrowing it is the normal arc for a maturing team.

A few years ago, "Salesforce DevOps" mostly meant "please stop using change sets." In 2026 it means a connected stack of version control, safe deployment, backup & recovery, quality, data, and governance — practices and tools that take a change from a developer's sandbox to production safely, repeatably, and with a way back if something breaks.

If you're assembling (or upgrading) that setup, this is the map: what each layer is for, and how they fit together.

Ask a Salesforce team what their disaster recovery plan is and you'll usually get one of two answers: "Salesforce handles that," or an uncomfortable silence. Both are a problem.

Salesforce is one of the most reliable platforms on earth — but "the platform is up" and "your data and configuration are recoverable" are two very different guarantees. This is a practical playbook for the second one: what to protect, how to think about it, and exactly what to do when something goes wrong.