How far back can you go — and why does it matter?
Your recovery window is how far back in time you can go to restore your data. If something goes wrong today — ransomware, accidental deletion, a corrupted file — you can reach back into your vault and pull out a clean copy from yesterday, last week, or last month.
The longer your recovery window, the further back you can reach.
Imagine a window that slides forward every day. Whatever falls inside that window is available for recovery. Whatever falls outside it is gone. The window doesn't grow forever — it moves. New snapshots come in at one end, old ones expire at the other.
Here's why the length of your window matters in practice:
Ransomware hits your computer on a Tuesday. You call us Wednesday. With any plan, you can restore from Monday's clean backup — less than 48 hours of data loss at most.
Some ransomware quietly corrupts files for weeks before triggering. With a 90-day window, you can reach back past the corruption to a clean snapshot from before it started. With only 30 days, you might not reach far enough.
You realized you need a document you deleted six months ago. With a 365-day window and monthly snapshots going back a year, there's a good chance we can find it.
This is the story from our home page. She paid the ransom. She still lost most of it. There was no window to reach back through.
Every VaultShield plan includes daily snapshots for the full retention window, plus monthly snapshots that extend your reach even further.