# Protecting your data with backups, shadow copies, and scheduled replication
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Beyond automatically replicating your file system's data to ensure high durability, Amazon FSx provides you with the following options to further protect the data stored on your file systems:
+ Native Amazon FSx backups support your backup retention and compliance needs within Amazon FSx.
+ AWS Backup backups of your Amazon FSx file systems are part of a centralized and automated backup solution across AWS services in the cloud and on premises.
+ Windows shadow copies enable your users to easily undo file changes and compare file versions by restoring files to previous versions.
+ AWS DataSync scheduled replication of your Amazon FSx file system to a second file system provides data protection and recovery.

**Topics**
+ [Protecting your data with backups](using-backups.md)
+ [Protecting your data with shadow copies](shadow-copies-fsxW.md)
+ [Scheduled replication using AWS DataSync](#scheduled-replication-datasync)

## Scheduled replication using AWS DataSync
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You can use AWS DataSync to schedule periodic replication of your FSx for Windows File Server file system to a second file system. This capability is available for both in-Region and cross-Region deployments. To learn more, see [Migrating existing files to FSx for Windows File Server using AWS DataSync](migrate-files-to-fsx-datasync.md) in this guide and [Data transfer between AWS storage services](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datasync/latest/userguide/how-datasync-works.html#in-cloud-transfer) in the *AWS DataSync User Guide*.