{"id":840,"date":"2024-05-07T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/does-spai-use-a-backup-mechanism\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:42:02","password":"","slug":"does-spai-use-a-backup-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/does-spai-use-a-backup-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Does SPAI use a backup mechanism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-adaptive-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ShortPixel Adaptive Images<\/a> (SPAI), as opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-image-optimiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ShortPixel Image Optimizer<\/a> (SPIO), does not touch the original images on the website where it is installed. This means that in order to &#8220;restore&#8221; all the images on your website to their initial state you just need to deactivate SPAI and make sure you flush any caching you may have: <a href=\"https:\/\/help.shortpixel.com\/article\/426-how-to-clear-wordpress-cache\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to clear WordPress cache<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShortPixel Adaptive Images (SPAI), as opposed to ShortPixel Image Optimizer (SPIO), does not touch the original images on the website where it is installed. This means that in order to &#8220;restore&#8221; all the images on your website to their initial state you just need to deactivate SPAI and make sure you flush any caching you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[35],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-840","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-adaptive-images"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":62,"total_views":"652","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"ShortPixel Adaptive Images","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-adaptive-images\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/840\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}