# Backups

![Screenshot: backups](../_images/screenshots/backups.svg)


The **Backups** page (`/backups`) lists backups across your instances, and
lets you open a backup's detail page (`/backups/<id>`) to restore or
download it.

To trigger a new backup rather than browse existing ones, use the backup
action on an instance's detail page (or
`POST /api/instances/<id>/backup` — see
[Instances](../developer/api/instances.md)). Restoring is a destructive,
long-running operation — see [Backups (API reference)](../developer/api/backups.md)
for what the restore call actually confirms.