30-day Free Trial - Cloud Backup - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Cloud Backup offers a 30-day free trial for some data sources. During the free trial, all fees for the Cloud Backup product are waived, regardless of the data source size. You can switch to a paid plan at any time during the trial. If you do not switch to a paid plan before the trial expires, your backup jobs automatically stop. The backup data generated during the free trial is deleted seven days after the backup jobs stop. To ensure your data is secure, switch to a paid plan before the trial ends. This topic describes the details of the 30-day free trial.

Limits

The following enterprise-level features are not available during the 30-day free trial: backup policies, automatic archiving, immutable backups, or virus detection for backup points.
Backup plan limits: You cannot edit the source path or backup cycle. The backup interval is fixed at one day and the retention period is fixed at one week. Each free trial backup plan uses a separate backup vault, which cannot be changed after you switch to a paid plan.
Backup plans created using the Associate Resource Tag (Optional) feature in a backup policy are not eligible for the 30-day free trial. For more information, see Associate resource tags.

Switch to a paid plan

You can switch to a paid plan in one of the following three ways:
- When you create a free trial plan, you can click Switch to Paid Plan to immediately switch to a paid plan.
- On the Backup Plans page, find the free trial plan that you want to manage. In the Status column, click Trial Settings > Pay After Trial Ends. The plan will then automatically switch to a paid plan after the 30-day trial ends. Alternatively, click Trial Settings > Switch to Paid Plan to switch to a paid plan immediately.
- On the Backup Vaults page, the procedure depends on the backup vault type. For a Tablestore backup vault, go to the Actions column and click More > Switch to Paid Plan to switch to a paid plan immediately. For an OSS or NAS backup vault, go to the Status column and select Trial Settings > Pay After Trial Ends. The plan will then automatically switch to a paid plan after the 30-day trial ends. Alternatively, you can select Trial Settings > Switch to Paid Plan to switch to a paid plan immediately.
After you switch to a paid plan, you can edit the backup policy.
1. Go to the Backup Plans page. In the Actions column of the plan, click Edit. In the Policy Center, create a new backup policy based on the displayed backup vault information. You can then set the backup cycle and enable enterprise-level features as needed.
2. On the Edit Plan page, select the backup policy that you created from the Backup Policy drop-down list. This action binds the policy to the plan and completes the initial configuration. To adjust policy details later, you can edit the policy directly in the Policy Center.

30-day free trial details

Data source	Free backup object	Free backup vault type	Paid backup vault type	Action upon trial expiration	Manual switch to paid plan	Billable items
OSS backup	Bucket	OSS backup vault (30-day free) Note: Backup vault replication and KMS encryption are not supported.	General-purpose backup vault	Automatically switches to a paid plan upon expiration. Disabled upon expiration. (If you do not enable Pay After Trial Ends within 30 days, free backups are automatically deleted.)	When creating a free plan, select Switch to Paid Plan. When editing a free plan, set it to Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan. On the Backup Vaults page, under Trial Settings, set it to Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan.	Storage capacity fee The first 30 days of backup for each OSS bucket are free. OSS request fees generated by the backup service This item is not free. Fees are charged by the OSS service.
NAS backup	File system	NAS backup vault (30-day free) Note: Backup vault replication and KMS encryption are not supported.	General-purpose backup vault	Automatically switches to a paid plan upon expiration. Disabled upon expiration. (If you do not enable Pay After Trial Ends within 30 days, free backups are automatically deleted.)	When creating a free plan, select Switch to Paid Plan. When editing a free plan, set it to Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan. On the Backup Vaults page, under Trial Settings, set it to Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan.	Storage capacity fee The first 30 days of backup for each NAS file system are free.
Tablestore backup	Alibaba Cloud account	Tablestore backup vault (30-day free) Note: Backup vault replication is not supported.	General-purpose backup vault	Automatically switches to a paid plan.	When creating a free plan, select Switch to Paid Plan. On the Backup Vaults page, select More > Switch to Paid Plan.	Storage capacity fee The first 30 days of Tablestore backup are free for each UID.
Database Backup	Alibaba Cloud account	Database backup vault Note: KMS encryption is not supported.	Database backup vault Note: KMS encryption is not supported.	Automatically switches to a paid plan.	Not supported	Storage capacity fee The first 30 days of Database Backup are free for each UID. Repository rental fee The first 30 days of Database Backup are free for each UID.

For detailed pricing information about Cloud Backup, see Pricing Details.