30-day free trial

For select data sources, Cloud Backup offers a 30-day free trial during which all fees are waived, regardless of the data source size. You can convert to a paid plan at any time during the trial. If you do not configure the plan to auto-renew to a paid subscription, your backup jobs will automatically stop after 30 days. All backup data generated during the free trial will be permanently deleted seven days after the backup jobs are stopped. To prevent data loss, convert to a paid plan before the trial expires. The following sections describe the details of the 30-day free trial.

Limitations

Enterprise features: The 30-day free trial does not include backup policies, automatic archiving, immutable backups, or virus detection for backup points.
Each free backup plan uses a dedicated backup vault. This vault cannot be changed after you convert 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.

Convert to a paid plan

You can convert your trial to a paid plan in one of the following ways:
- When you create a free plan, click Switch to Paid Plan to convert immediately.
- On the Backup Plans page, find the free plan that you want to edit. In the Status column, click Trial Settings > Pay After Trial Ends to automatically convert to a paid plan when the trial expires. Alternatively, click Trial Settings > Switch to Paid Plan to convert immediately.
- On the Storage Vaults page, for a Tablestore backup vault, find the vault and in the Actions column, click <hd> More </hd> > Switch to Paid Plan to convert immediately. For an OSS or NAS backup vault, find the vault and in the Status column, select Trial Settings > Pay After Trial Ends to configure automatic conversion, or select Trial Settings > Switch to Paid Plan to convert immediately.
After you convert to a paid plan, follow these steps to edit the backup policy:
1. After you convert to a paid plan, on the Backup Plan page, you can click Edit in the Actions column, create a new backup policy in Policy Center based on the displayed backup vault information, and set the backup cycle and enable enterprise-level backup features based on your business requirements.
2. On the Modify Plan page, select the new policy from the Backup Policy drop-down list to associate it with the plan. This completes the initial configuration. To adjust policy details in the future, you can edit the backup policy directly in the Policy Center.

Data source	Free backup object	Free backup vault	Paid backup vault	Expiration action	Manual conversion	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 converts to a paid plan. Deactivated upon expiration. (If you do not select Pay After Trial Ends within 30 days, backup data from the free trial will be automatically deleted.)	When creating the free plan, click Switch to Paid Plan. When editing the free plan, select Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan. On the Storage Vaults page, under Trial Settings, select Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan.	storage capacity fee The first 30 days are free for each OSS bucket. OSS request fees This service is not included in the free trial. 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 converts to a paid plan. Deactivated upon expiration. (If you do not select Pay After Trial Ends within 30 days, backup data from the free trial will be automatically deleted.)	When creating the free plan, click Switch to Paid Plan. When editing the free plan, select Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan. On the Storage Vaults page, under Trial Settings, select Pay After Trial Ends or Switch to Paid Plan.	storage capacity fee The first 30 days are free for each NAS file system.
Tablestore backup	Alibaba Cloud account	Tablestore backup vault (30-day free) Note: Backup vault replication is not supported.	General-purpose backup vault	Automatically converts to a paid plan.	When creating the free plan, click Switch to Paid Plan. On the Storage Vaults page, click <hd> More </hd> > Switch to Paid Plan.	storage capacity fee The first 30 days are free for each Alibaba Cloud account (by 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 converts to a paid plan.	Not supported	storage capacity fee The first 30 days are free for each Alibaba Cloud account (by UID). repository rental fee The first 30 days are free for each Alibaba Cloud account (by UID).

For details about Cloud Backup pricing, see Pricing.