Top 7 Free Tools for Salesforce Data Backup

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Salesforce Data Export Service

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Export Reports

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SFXpert Data Backup & Recovery

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DataLoader.io

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Apex Data Loader

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Dataloader.io (by MuleSoft)

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Backuply

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