SkieDoes Skie back up our policies and settings every night?
Yes. Skie takes a backup of your organisation's configuration every night, covering things like policies, app lists, groups and geofences. If someone deletes or overwrites something by mistake, you can preview a backup and restore the missing item or a previous version. Backups cover your configuration, not the files on the devices.
Setting up a school or company in Skie takes real work: policies, app lists, schedules, groups, geofences, Wi-Fi profiles. Losing it to a mistaken click would be painful, so a backup runs each night without anyone starting it.
The backup is a copy of your configuration as it stood at that time. It lets you answer three practical questions after a mistake. What did this look like yesterday? Can I get back the policy someone deleted? Can I undo an edit that overwrote a good setting? Skie provides ways to do each, described in restore preview, restore a missing or overwritten item and restore a previous version.
You can also download a backup to keep your own copy; see download a backup. Data is stored in an India region (Mumbai), on Google Cloud, which matters for organisations that want their data held in India.
What the backup is not: it is not a copy of the contents of student devices, and it is not a full export of everything the organisation holds. A full data export is not available yet. Skie does not publish a retention period for backups, and configurable retention is not available yet, so ask the team if your policy depends on a number.
Practical tip: before a large change, such as rebuilding all the app lists for a new term, note the date. If it goes wrong, you know you can look at the backup from the night before.