Cloudback for Linear

Key Features

• •Automated daily backups: Cloudback runs daily scheduled backups of your entire Linear workspace, including issues, projects, documents, cycles, comments, labels, templates, and embedded files. On-demand backups are also available, ensuring you never lose critical data.
• •Bring Your Own Storage (BYOS): Direct backups to your own cloud storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, OneDrive, Wasabi). You retain full control over data location and avoid vendor lock-in, reducing costs and meeting data residency requirements.
• •RSA Lockbox encryption: Manage your own encryption keys with RSA Lockbox. Only you can decrypt backups, providing an extra layer of security against unauthorized access and ensuring compliance with enterprise security policies.
• •Compliance and audit: SOC 2 certified with AES encryption, audit logs, and immutability. Notifications keep you informed. This suite helps regulated industries meet compliance standards while maintaining a clear trail of backup activities.
• •Instant restores: Restore entire Linear workspaces or specific items (issues, projects) with a few clicks. Minimal downtime ensures teams can quickly recover from data loss events and resume normal operations.
• •Infrastructure as Code via Terraform: Automate backup configuration using Terraform provider. Define schedules, storage targets, and data selections in code, enabling repeatable, version-controlled setups for DevOps environments.

Use Cases

• •Recover from accidental deletion: When a project milestone or set of issues is accidentally removed, an admin can restore that specific data from a previous backup without affecting the rest of the workspace, minimizing disruption.
• •Ransomware recovery: If a ransomware attack encrypts your Linear workspace, Cloudback's air-gapped, immutable backups provide clean, unmodified copies. Restore your entire workspace or critical projects within hours, ensuring business continuity.
• •Onboard new team members: Quickly set up a new developer by restoring a template workspace with predefined labels, cycles, and project structures from a backup. This accelerates onboarding and standardizes workflows.
• •Migrate Linear workspace: When moving to a new Linear organization or account, use Cloudback to export your backed-up data and restore it to the new workspace, preserving all issues, documents, and metadata without manual re-entry.
• •Compliance auditing: Generate a full history of backup and restore activities via the audit log. Use this to demonstrate data protection practices during internal or external audits, especially for SOC2, HIPAA, or GDPR requirements.

Who is this for?

Project managers, developers, DevOps engineers, IT administrators, and compliance officers who rely on Linear for task management, sprint planning, and issue tracking. Suitable for small to large teams across software development, technology, and regulated industries such as finance and healthcare. Also relevant for organizations that need to meet SOC2, GDPR, or other data protection standards and prefer to maintain control over their backup storage and encryption.