Yes, AvePoint backs up monday.com. AvePoint provides automated, full-fidelity backup for items, sub-items, update and comment history, status, people, and other metadata, with item-level restore. It complements monday.com’s native recovery capabilities with additional backup, retention, and granular restore options for critical project data and history.
Key Takeaways
- AvePoint provides full-fidelity backup and granular restore for monday.com. Coverage extends beyond native recovery options and helps preserve critical project data and history.
- Native recovery has retention and recovery limitations. Deleted items remain recoverable for roughly 30 days, while some content types have more limited native recovery options.
- Recovery should extend beyond the default retention window. AvePoint’s monday.com backups default to seven years of retention and can be adjusted to align with organizational compliance requirements.
- Monday.com does not operate in isolation. Most organizations use it alongside Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, creating a need for consistent backup, retention, and recovery policies across multiple SaaS platforms.
- Multicloud coverage reduces operational complexity. AvePoint protects monday.com alongside Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace under a single backup and recovery platform.
- AI and automation increase the impact of data loss. As automations and AI-generated summaries depend on board data and metadata, backup gaps can affect downstream processes and reporting accuracy.
- Recovery readiness matters as much as backup coverage. Regular restore testing helps validate that recovery processes will work when needed and provides evidence for audit and compliance requirements.
Why Does Monday.com Need Independent Backup?
Monday.com needs independent backup because deleted updates and comments have more limited native recovery options, deleted items become permanently unrecoverable after a matter of weeks, and native exports miss workflow logic, relationships, and configuration context entirely.
While monday.com runs internal daily backups, it strongly recommends a third-party backup solution for customers who need capabilities like point-in-time restore, automated backups, and granular restore beyond the native options. While there are no major public stories of data breaches or data loss with regard to monday.com, 68% of organizations experience some form of data loss annually, and up to 29% occurred because of human error. Simple actions like deleting an update or comment result in instant and permanent deletion. Even in cases where there is a recycle bin, deleted items are no longer recoverable through the platform after 30 days. The risk increases when considering bulk actions like data imports or syncs with third-party apps.
- Deleting comments or updates. Once an update or comment is deleted, it is no longer available through native recovery options.
- 30 Day recycle bin limit. Deleted items become permanently unrecoverable after 30 days.
- Native exports miss context. Manual exports and recovery options often miss workflow logic, relationships, and configuration context, making clean recovery difficult even within the window.
- API limitations exclude key data. Certain data types, including views, activity logs, dashboards, and automations, can’t be backed up at all due to platform API limitations.
How Does AvePoint Back Up Monday.com?
AvePoint backs up monday.com with full-fidelity, automated protection covering items, sub-items, and the metadata native tools leave exposed: full update and comment history, status, people, date, and text fields, restoring a single item or sub-item without touching the rest of the board.
- What’s protected: Items, sub-items, and critical metadata, full update/comment history, status, people, date, and text fields, beyond what monday.com’s own activity logs and undo functions cover
- Restore: Non-destructive restore recreates deleted items, updates, and comments as new objects, preserving project history without overwriting existing data.
- Backup frequency: Automated, running up to four times a day for a low recovery point objective, instead of relying on manual export/import
- Retention: Defaults to seven years and can be adjusted up or down to match compliance needs
- Granularity: A single item or sub-item restoration without affecting the rest of the board, avoiding board-wide recovery operations
How Does AvePoint’s Monday.com Backup Compare to Native Recovery?
AvePoint’s monday.com backup differs from native recovery most on what’s recoverable at all: Native recovery options vary by content type and retention window, while AvePoint restores items, sub-items, and their associated history with policy-based retention and granular recovery options.
| Capability | Monday.com Native | AvePoint |
| Data protected | Platform-level backup only; user/item recovery limited to activity logs and basic undo | Items, sub-items, full update/comment history, status, people, date, and text fields |
| Restore | Very limited; relies on activity logs and undo history, no point-in-time recovery. Advanced Recovery Scenarios require Monday.com support. | Granular and non-destructive; recovers full update/comment threads as new objects |
| Retention | Data permanently deleted after 30 Days from Recycle Bin. No recovery for deleted updates and comments. Internal backups deleted after 25 days | Defaults to 7 years, adjustable to your compliance needs |
| Backup frequency | Once daily | Automated, up to 4 times a day |
| Granularity | No granular recovery of a single item or sub-item | Item- and sub-item-level restore, including full update history |
| Management overhead | High: manual export/import required to recover specific items or historical states | Low: centralized management and audit-ready reporting |
What Does This Mean for Monday.com Alongside Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace?
Monday.com rarely runs alone. Teams pair it with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace for documents and communication, and both carry native-recovery gaps of their own. AvePoint backs up monday.com alongside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other SaaS applications under one platform, instead of one retention policy and restore process per tool.
Treating monday.com backup as a standalone project misses the point. A team managing recovery for monday.com, SharePoint, and Google Drive under separate native recovery windows is carrying separate sets of retention rules and restore limitations for every platform, not one.
How Does AI and Automation Change the Stakes of Monday.com Data Loss?
As teams build automations and connect AI tools to monday.com boards for status reporting and planning, losing update history or item metadata doesn’t just erase a record, it silently breaks whatever automation or AI-generated summary depended on that structure.
A backup gap in monday.com used to be a project-visibility problem. Once automations and AI summaries run on top of that same board data, it’s also a reliability problem for every downstream process built on it.
Monday.com Backup Maturity Tiers
| Tier | What It Looks Like |
| Tier 1: Native only | Relying solely on monday.com’s activity logs and undo history. Deleted comments/updates unrecoverable instantly; deleted items unrecoverable after 30 days. |
| Tier 2: Partial coverage | Native recovery supplemented by manual exports for a few critical boards. Workflow logic and relationships still lost on export; no automation. |
| Tier 3: AvePoint-backed, multi-platform | Automated backup with item- and sub-item-level restore, full update history preserved, retention set by policy, and coverage extended across monday.com, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace under one platform. |
AvePoint backs up monday.com alongside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce under one platform, with item-level restore and retention set by your organization, not a native default.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I recover a deleted comment or update in monday.com?
Deleting an update or comment in monday.com is unrecoverable through standard recovery tools; there is no trash, undo, or native recovery path for that content type at all without a third-party backup.
How long do I have to recover a deleted item in monday.com?
Deleted items in monday.com become permanently unrecoverable through the platform after roughly 30 days, after which native recovery is no longer possible.
Does AvePoint’s monday.com backup replace native recovery or work alongside it?
AvePoint’s monday.com backup works alongside native recovery, closing the gaps in comment/update recovery, retention, and granularity that native tools leave open rather than replacing them outright.
How often should I test a monday.com restore?
Test a monday.com restore at least quarterly, and align the schedule to an organization’s audit or compliance review cycle so recovery evidence stays current.
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Grace Harrison is a Product Marketing Manager at AvePoint, Inc., based in Jersey City, NJ. She works in the Product Strategy department, contributing to solutions like AvePoint Cloud Backup, AvePoint Fly, and AvePoint tyGraph. Grace plays a key role in developing marketing strategies and competitive intelligence to support AvePoint's field teams and enhance their selling tools.