Extra storage and spending cap

How storage is countedCopy Anchor Link

Storage is the total compressed, encrypted size of your successful backups in backupd Storage. Copies in your own buckets don't count. Your current usage is shown under Usage in Settings → Billing.

Extra storageCopy Anchor Link

When you use more than your plan includes, backups keep running and the extra is billed per GB:

Extra storage is counted in whole GB, rounded up. Estimated this period on the billing page shows your plan price plus the extra storage so far.

Storage alertsCopy Anchor Link

backupd alerts you at 80% and at 100% of your included storage, once each per billing period. The alerts go to your notification channels and by email to the workspace's owners and admins. The usage badge on the billing page shows Healthy, Above 80%, Billing overage or a paused state.

Spending capCopy Anchor Link

A spending cap is a hard budget for extra storage each billing period. When it is reached, new backups pause and you're alerted. You're never billed past it.

1. Open Settings → Billing, under Spending cap.
2. Turn on Cap overage spending.
3. Enter the Maximum extra spend per month in dollars. The page shows how many GB beyond your included storage that allows.
4. Click Save.

There is no cap until you set one. A spending cap needs a paid plan or an active trial.

When the cap is reachedCopy Anchor Link

• New backups stop, scheduled and manual. Pressing Backup now shows Spending cap reached. Upgrade or raise your spending cap to back up.
• The Spending cap reached event goes to your notification channels.
• Existing backups stay available to download and restore.
• Backups resume once you raise the cap, remove it, or retention frees enough space.

Use less storageCopy Anchor Link

• Shorten retention in each database's Settings tab.
• Back up less often.
• Delete backups you don't need.

See Schedules and retention.