Pro user here - I have not seen backups automatically enabled on services (backups are only available for individual services with volumes, not entire projects). As the disk space used by these counts towards your usage, I believe this is likely intentional in order to prevent unexpected charges.

The good news is - they're very easy to enable. Simply select your service in the canvas, and if it supports backups, you will see a "Backups" tab. Here you can create backups manually, or have them done automatically on a schedule (click "Edit Schedule" in the top right - it's not obvious at first glance).

You can read more about them in the docs: Backups

Backups are not automatically activated by default. You need to enable them manually on services that have mounted volumes (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL are default Railway Databases that have this).

To enable backups just go to the "backups" menu in the service you want to enable backups for:

1. Select a backup schedule:

   • Daily - Every 24 hours, kept for 6 days

   • Weekly - Every 7 days, kept for 1 month

   • Monthly - Every 30 days, kept for 3 months

2. You can select multiple schedules for the same volume

3. You can also manually trigger backups anytime

If you want to read more, Backups Documentation