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Railway maintains two kinds of backups: user-scheduled backups on the dashboard, and disaster backups retained off-site regardless of settings; the old API path performed a cascading delete that made user backups appear unavailable in the UI, and Railway says it will now delay deleting the backups themselves.
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10/17/2026
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Valid until: 1/15/2027
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