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Automatically Backup Your Shopify Store: Rewind Backups Shopify App Review and Tutorial

4.8(828) - Store Management

While trying to make changes to your store to create a better customer experience, there's a huge possibility that you might make some mistakes. Probably delete some code, whether on purpose or by mistake or add a code you think would make your store look better. If you eventually regret these mistakes or additions, then you need to restore your store, and the only way to do this is by using an app that backups your store. 

Rewind Backups app creates a daily, automatic backup of your Shopify store – protecting your most valuable online assets. The Rewind Backups app saves your store from small mistakes and huge disasters in minutes. With the Rewind Backups app by Rewind, you can sleep safe knowing that all of your store's data is kept safe and backed up by Shopify's top-rated backup app.

The Rewind Backups Shopify app offers so much to Shopify store merchants, and this app review would help you with all you need to know.

Features & Quirks
  • Automatic Daily Backup Of Your Shopify Store
  • Weekly Summary Email Of Auto Backups
  • 7-day Free Trial
  • Restore Data In Minutes
  • Completely Secure + GDPR Compliant
Pricing
Basic
$3/month

    Up To 20 Orders/Month

  • Daily Automated Backups
  • Unlimited File Storage
  • 1 Year Of History







Growth
$9/month

    Up To 200 Orders/Month

  • Daily Automated Backups
  • Unlimited File Storage
  • 1 Year Of History
  • On-demand Backups
  • Changes To Products Saved Instantly


Pro
$39/month

    Up To 600 Orders/Month

  • Daily Automated Backups
  • Unlimited File Storage
  • 1 Year Of History
  • On-demand Backups
  • Changes To Products Saved Instantly


Pro
$99/month

    Up To 2,000 Orders/Month

  • Daily Automated Backups
  • Unlimited File Storage
  • 1 Year Of History
  • On-demand Backups
  • Changes To Products Saved Instantly
  • Multi-store Ready
Full Tutorial & Review
  • Once the Rewind Backups by Rewind Shopify app is installed, you should be greeted with the plan picker. This page also includes a live chat feature in case you might have some questions, especially regarding the plan to choose. Once you select a plan, click on start trial, and you should be on the dashboard, and the backup should be in progress. 

You should note that there is no progress bar. For instance, you can see as the backup is in progress but not how many percentages or how much time is left. The backup should be complete in half an hour. Once this is done, you can now try to do some damages to your store to test it out. 

To play safe, be sure to make changes that matter but also one you can easily fix. 

  • Return to the Shopify admin and start messing things up. First, delete some random things from the theme code, also go to the Online Store and then themes. From here, you will choose actions and edit code, delete some random templates and sections. 

  • Now going back to the website, you can see the damage done. It's time to go back to the rewind app and try to fix it. Go to the apps and choose rewind and on the dashboard, click on account Rewind. 

Account rewinds are used to rewind all items within a specific item type, or an entire store, back to a specific date and time. For the items that are going to be rewind, go with All item types, but you can always select only the ones that need to be recovered. You can choose from Blogs, custom collections, customers, pages, products, product images, Smart collections and themes. 

  • In the date and time section, first, you need to select the date you want your items to be restored. Click on select a date and simply choose the number from the calendar; you change the time from the drop-down menu. You now need to confirm your rewind, and that is it. 

  • Click on the red button that says Rewind, and a new pop-up window should appear. Once your account rewind starts, you'll be notified by email when it is done. Click on done, and you're back to the dashboard. 

There's not much to do on the dashboard, and you don't have a lot of things to play with; Rewind should've included a game on their dashboard just to have something to keep you busy. 

You should note that customer support advises that the most you can rewind to is the very first backup you took; that's the one with the ''complete'' theme in it. Trying to go back farther than that will do nothing, and going back to now will also do nothing. 

Once the rewind is done, you can go back to your store to see the changes that have reverted. Our test tutorial worked perfectly, and our demo store was returned to normal.

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Recommendation

The Rewind Backups by Rewind Shopify app is a true lifesaver, and we recommend using it if you haven't already. We all make mistakes, and it would be great to have an app that protects your store from these mistakes by backing up your store daily using the Rewind Backups by Rewind Shopify app.

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