# Baserow Data Management - Recovery and Deletion Basics

> This guide covers recovering accidentally deleted records within the retention window in open-source Baserow, and what permanent deletion actually removes.

Source: https://opennix.org/en/docs/baserow/data-management/


Open-source Baserow keeps recently deleted rows, tables, and databases inside a limited retention window they can be restored from - this section explains that free recovery mechanism and what happens to data once the window closes.