People make mistakes. None of us is perfect, but when we work with our business applications, we do have a perfect defense against catastrophic human error. Backing up your Workday® application is your safeguard against errors that could affect your business operations.
Whether you are in the implementation phase of your Workday® project or already launched, you have several tenants to maintain, and some of that work will include making backups.
For those not yet initiated, tenants are Workday® instances you sign into separately for different purposes. For those who are coming to Workday® from the legacy ERP world, a Workday® tenant corresponds to an  instance of your environment.

Workday® Tenants
In a typical implementation, a customer will have tenants in the following list. There could be more depending on the organization's needs. You can also request for additional tenants depending on your need.

GMS (Global Modern Services Tenant): a services tenant with fictitious test data for Workday® implementation partners to create demos, test upgrades, and try configurations.
Initial Prototype Tenant: the initial client setup.
Config Prototype Tenant: where you perform all your configurations.
Gold Tenant: an empty instance used to load customer data. It is used to create the production tenant.
Production Tenant: When your quality assurance has determined that the Gold Tenant meets all your requirements, you request Workday® to move it to production. Workday® then makes a copy of the production tenant to create your Sandbox Tenant.
Sandbox Tenant: used to test changes like new integrations, custom reports, and configurations. You also will use it to try new features before they are released into your production. The sandbox is refreshed weekly from production, so if you are working on a change you need to keep, you will need to request that your sandbox is not refreshed.
Implementation Tenant: used as part of your implementation phase, to create a new tenant, copy an implementation tenant to another implementation tenant.

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