Backups & restore points · Data Backup basics
Does Data Backup run when Storage Studio is closed?
Short answer: Backups run while Storage Studio is running in the menu bar. If you quit, they pause; when you reopen the app it catches up, finishing unfinished backups and saving what changed meanwhile.
Data Backup works while Storage Studio is running — which is normally all the time, since it lives in the menu bar. If you quit it, backups pause, and nothing is lost.
When you open the app again it does a catch-up: it finishes any backup that didn't complete and picks up everything that changed while it was closed. A backup cut short by quitting continues from where it stopped rather than starting over.
If a backup was interrupted, the card says so — for example "The last backup didn't finish — Storage Studio closed while it was running" — and Back up now carries on straight away.