How to back up Miro (and restore deleted data)

In short: To back up Miro, connect ProBackup to your Miro account via OAuth, choose the team and boards to protect, and the first snapshot runs within 24 hours. Boards with their frames, shapes, text, lines, sticky notes and paint are copied daily to independent AWS storage. Comments and tags are not exposed by Miro's API, and Miro recovery is view-and-export today.

ProBackup is a SaaS backup service that takes automated daily snapshots of your cloud app data and lets you restore individual records, files or whole projects back to the original account. For Miro that means a dated copy of every board, outside Miro, that does not depend on someone noticing a deletion before a trash timer runs out.

Why Miro's Trash and board history are not a backup

Miro has two native safety nets. Both are useful, both are limited (all checked 2026-09-16):

The gap is easy to miss. "Last 1,000 deleted objects" sounds generous until a template refresh or a bulk clean-up sweeps a few thousand stickies off a board in one afternoon, or an AI agent with board access rewrites a frame at machine speed. And once a board leaves Trash, whether after 30 days or 180, Miro has nothing to give back.

A backup you own answers a different question: not "can Miro undo this?" but "what did this board contain on the 3rd?"

How to back up Miro with ProBackup (step by step)

Setup takes about three minutes. No plug-in to install on the board, nothing to schedule.

1. Create your ProBackup account. Go to app.probackup.io/onboarding. The 7-day trial needs no credit card. Choose the AWS region for your snapshots; nine regions are available and you pick at signup (changing it after the first backup requires support assistance).
2. Connect Miro via OAuth. Select Miro from the platform list and authorise ProBackup. ProBackup never sees your password; tokens are stored encrypted with AES-256.
3. Choose the scope. Pick the Miro team and the boards you want included. [verify: exact scope-picker behaviour for Miro in the current app]
4. Wait for the first snapshot. It starts automatically and finishes within 24 hours, then repeats every 24 hours.
5. Browse the vault. Open any snapshot to see each board and the objects it contained on that date.

Snapshots sit in AWS S3 with AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS in transit. ProBackup has been SOC 2 Type II certified since May 2025 and is GDPR compliant.

What is (and is not) backed up for Miro

ProBackup backs up everything Miro's API exposes for a board:

• Boards
• Frames
• Lines
• Text
• Shapes
• Sticky notes
• Paint

Not backed up today:

• Comments
• Tags

These two are not available through Miro's API. ProBackup will add them to the backup scope as soon as Miro exposes them. Note the overlap with Miro's own limitation: comments deleted separately are also outside Miro's board-history restore, so there is currently no safety net for Miro comments from any tool.

Version history depends on your plan: Plus keeps 6 months of snapshots, Pro keeps 2 years and Premium keeps an unlimited history.

How to restore deleted Miro data

Be direct about this: ProBackup cannot currently push data back into Miro. Due to API limitations, restore to the Miro account is not possible. On other platforms ProBackup offers two restore modes (create new duplicate records, or overwrite existing records field by field); Miro's API does not allow either yet.

What recovery looks like in practice:

1. Open the Miro backup in ProBackup and select the snapshot from before the deletion.
2. View the board and its objects (frames, shapes, text, sticky notes, lines, paint) as they stood on that date.
3. Export the board data from ProBackup.
4. Rebuild the content in Miro, or use the export as the authoritative record for an audit, a customer dispute or a compliance request.

It is not one-click. But it works after the Trash timer has expired, after the 1,000-object board-history limit has been exceeded, and after a board has been deleted permanently, which is exactly where Miro's own tools stop.

FAQ

How long does Miro keep a deleted board?

By default, 90 days in Trash, after which it is permanently deleted. Enterprise admins can set the period to 30, 60, 90 or 180 days, and a board removed from Trash manually cannot be recovered (help.miro.com, checked 2026-09-16). The Trash feature is documented for the Enterprise plan [verify for other plans].

Does ProBackup back up Miro comments?

No. Comments and tags are not available through Miro's API, so they are excluded from the backup scope until Miro exposes them. Boards, frames, lines, text, shapes, sticky notes and paint are all included.

Can I restore a Miro board from ProBackup?

Not directly into Miro; the Miro API does not allow it. You can open any daily snapshot, view the board content and export it. Plans start at $25 per month, billed yearly, with 6 months of version history on Plus, 2 years on Pro and unlimited on Premium.

Start backing up Miro today

Connect Miro in three minutes and get your first snapshot within 24 hours. No credit card, no board plug-in, and a copy of every board that outlives Miro's Trash timer.

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