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What data is backed up for Asana?

Written by ProBackup

This article lists the data types that ProBackup backs up for Asana and any known limitations.

What we back up

Workspace level:

  • Projects (including members, owner, description and the latest status update)

  • Teams (organizations only)

  • Portfolios*

  • Goals*

  • Users*

Project level:

  • Tasks and subtasks, including milestones, approvals and custom task types

  • Task details: assignee, dates, description (long descriptions may be truncated), section, tags, approval status and dependencies (blocked by / blocking)

  • Custom fields and their values

  • Comments (on tasks and subtasks)

  • Attachments (files uploaded to tasks)

  • Tasks that are not in any project, shown under "My Tasks"*

* Only available when your Asana workspace is on a paid Asana plan.

What we don't back up

  • Archived projects

  • Views

  • Forms

  • Rules

  • Messages (conversations)

  • Older project status updates (only the latest one is kept)

  • Timeline positions

  • Files attached via a third-party platform (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, or SharePoint)

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