Power Platform backups default to seven days
Microsoft’s Power Platform backup documentation says system backups are retained for seven days by default across production and nonproduction environments. Manual backups are also kept for seven days by default. Production Managed Environments can extend retention to 14, 21, or 28 days through the Power Platform admin center or PowerShell. Other nonproduction environments remain on the seven-day default.
Before this becomes a real incident, many makers assume Microsoft’s backup window will cover mistakes discovered weeks later. That assumption is especially risky for flows and apps that quietly fail, overwrite data, or depend on one person noticing a problem. The practical limit is now the governance around the environment, not just the platform backup. Teams that have not moved critical work into solutions, documented owners, or confirmed Managed Environment retention can lose the restore point before anyone realises the flow broke.
Analysis
Check the production environments that hold critical flows or apps, confirm whether backup retention is still seven days, and export solution packages for anything the team cannot afford to rebuild from memory.
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