The backup instance of your SmartSimple is updated nightly (around 3:00 am Eastern Standard Time) with all the current information from your main instance as it existed when the backup is performed each night. For example, if you change your password on the live instance of SmartSimple, the backup will save your new password when it is performed that night.
'''{| class="wikitable"|-!|Backup''' – ||The backup environment is a hot backup. This means that it is always running and available, just like the production (live) environment. However, the backup is ''not'' a real-time continuous sync. Rather, the backup only synchronizes from the production servers once a day at around 3:00 am Eastern Standard Time. This means that not modifications to the production environment of your SmartSimple instance will not be immediately reflected onto the backup - the delay will be around one day depending on when you have made the modification(s). |-'''!|Archive''' – ||The archive environment retains incremental backups of the database for up to 90 days. This environment is not an accessible web server; it only retrieves and stores each daily database backup.|}==<br />Using the Backup Instance==
===Locating Your Backup Instance===
Depending on the location of your production instance, you can determine the location of your backup instance using the following table:
