From sign-up to a fully encrypted, restorable backup of your Monday.com account — this guide walks you through every step, with screenshots and best practices.
Fill in your work email, company and a password. Click Start free trial.
You'll receive a verification email — click the confirmation link.
On the trial selection screen, pick Monday.com. Your trial workspace is provisioned instantly.
Painless onboarding
Trial accounts get the full Monday.com feature set — encryption, BYOB, scheduling, restore. Switch to a paid plan at any moment without losing data.
Option B — Paid licence (Stripe checkout)
Go to cybback.com/tarifs and pick the Monday.com plan that matches your account size.
Click Subscribe. You'll be redirected to Stripe Checkout (cards, SEPA, invoicing on annual plans).
After payment, you land back on the dashboard. Your licence is active immediately — visible under Account → Subscription.
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Connect Monday.com
Generate & paste your API token
CYBBACK authenticates with Monday.com using a personal API token. The token is encrypted with AES-256-GCM the moment it reaches our servers — it is never logged or exposed.
Generate the token in Monday.com
In Monday.com, click your profile picture (top right) → Developers.
In the left sidebar, click My access tokens.
Click Show next to your personal token, then Copy.
Use a service account, not a personal token
For production use, create a dedicated Monday.com user (e.g. backup@yourcompany.com), grant it admin/board-level access on every workspace you want backed up — including closed workspaces — and use that user's token.
Paste the token in API Token and click Save credentials.
CYBBACK runs a connection test. A green badge confirms the connection.
app.cybback.com/dashboard/monday-backup
Dashboard
Settings
Monday.com credentialsEncrypted at rest
Paste your personal API token. CYBBACK will validate the connection.
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Encryption at rest
Enable AES-256-GCM encryption
By default, your backups are stored on CYBBACK's secure EU infrastructure. To go one step further, enable client-side encryption: backup files are encrypted before they leave the worker, with a key only your tenant controls.
Turn it on
On the same Settings tab of the Monday.com page, scroll to Security options.
Toggle AES-256 Encryption ON.
Click Save. The change applies to every new backup. Previous backups remain readable as-is.
Settings → Security options
AES-256 EncryptionRecommended
Encrypts your backup data with the AES-256-GCM algorithm. Data is encrypted before being sent to storage.
EnabledYour next backups will be end-to-end encrypted
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Bring Your Own Bucket
Use your own S3-compatible storage
Want full data sovereignty? Point CYBBACK at your S3-compatible bucket — AWS S3, Scaleway, OVH, Wasabi, MinIO, Backblaze B2, IBM COS, or any provider speaking the S3 API. Your data, your provider, your region.
Pick & provision a bucket
In your S3 provider, create a private bucket (no public access, versioning recommended).
Create an access key / secret key with read/write permissions limited to that bucket.
Note your endpoint URL (e.g. s3.fr-par.scw.cloud) and region (e.g. fr-par).
Endpoint: the S3 API URL of your provider (with https://).
Bucket: the exact bucket name. Must already exist.
Region: as listed by the provider (case-sensitive).
Access Key / Secret Key: credentials with at leastPutObject, GetObject, DeleteObject and ListBucket.
Resilience built-in
CYBBACK stores an encrypted snapshot of your S3 credentials inside each backup record. Even if you change provider tomorrow, every previous backup remains restorable from the storage it was originally written to.
Test before saving
Always click Test connection first. CYBBACK will write & delete a tiny probe file to validate credentials, region and permissions.
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First backup
Run your first backup
You're now fully configured. Time to run your first backup — manually for instant peace of mind, then schedule recurring runs.
Manual backup
Go back to the Dashboard tab on the Monday.com page.
Pick the workspace selection mode: All workspaces (recommended) or Manual (cherry-pick).
Click Run backup now. The job appears in the queue with status pending, then running.
Pick a time window (e.g. 02:00 UTC) and click Save.
How long does it take?
A typical 200-board, 50k-item account completes in 5–15 minutes. Larger accounts (1000+ boards, files attached) can take up to 1 hour. CYBBACK uses a complexity-budget queue to stay under Monday's API rate limits without degrading their service.
Track your backups
Real-time: the Events page (/dashboard/events) streams every operation across all services via Server-Sent Events.
Notifications: success / failure / drift alerts via email, Slack and webhooks (configurable in Notifications).
Drift detection: if a backup contains 10% fewer items than the previous one, you get an alert — perfect to catch accidental mass deletions.
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Restore
Restore your data — granular & reversible
CYBBACK restores from any previous backup. Pick a single board, a single item, or the whole account — and write it back to the original workspace or to a new one.
The 3-step restore flow
Selection. Open the backup, browse workspaces & boards, tick what you want to recover. Search and lazy-loading let you scan thousands of boards smoothly.
Options. Choose your safety net:
Dry-run — simulate the restore, no write to Monday.com.
Create new boards — copy as new boards (no overwrite of live data).
Restore permissions — re-apply board members and visibility.
Redirect — write to a different workspace or folder than the source.
Execution. A worker picks up the job, restores in the background, and reports progress in real-time. You can close the tab — completion is emailed.
Dashboard → Monday.com → Restore
1. Selection
2. Options
3. Execution
Restore options3 boards · 412 items selected
Dry-runSimulate without writing to Monday.com
Create new boardsRecommended — preserves your live data
Restore permissionsRe-apply board members & access
Best practices
Always start with a dry-run — especially if restoring into a live workspace.
Prefer "Create new boards" for partial restores. You can then review and re-link manually.
Need a single item? Use the search bar inside the Selection step. Restore times scale with the number of items, not boards.
Cross-tenant restore: redirect to another Monday.com account by providing its API token at restore time.
Monday.com API constraints
Monday.com's API does not allow truly destructive overwrites. CYBBACK never deletes existing items during a restore — it always adds them. To clean a workspace before restoring, archive boards manually first.
You're all set.
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