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title: Backups and Disaster Recovery
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This section is devoted to protecting your Rancher Server data in a disaster scenario.

- [Backups]({{< baseurl >}}/rancher/v2.x/en/backups/backups)

    To protect yourself from a disaster scenario, you should create Rancher backups on a regular basis.

- [Restorations]({{< baseurl >}}/rancher/v2.x/en/backups/restorations)

    In a disaster scenario, you can restore your `etcd` database by restoring a backup.
