Bybit and Bitget P2P history limits: back it up before it disappears
Bybit keeps about 180 days of P2P order history, Bitget about 90. What that means for your records, what to export, and why the day you connect sets how far back your proof reaches.
The retention clock is shorter than you think
Both major P2P exchanges delete old order history. Bybit keeps roughly 180 days. Bitget keeps roughly 90, half as long. After that, the orders are gone from the platform, and no support ticket brings them back, because the data simply is not retained. This is not a bug or a policy you can appeal; it is how the exchanges are built.
For a trader that means the window to preserve any given trade is fixed and moving. A trade you did today is recoverable today. In three months on Bitget, or six on Bybit, it is unrecoverable forever. The people who lose their records are never the ones who planned to; they are the ones who found out about the limit the week a bank asked about a trade that had just fallen off the edge.
What to export, and when
The single most important action is to connect early, because the day you connect sets how far back your permanent record can reach. Connect Bitget and you capture up to the last 90 days; connect Bybit and you capture up to the last 180. Everything older than that was already gone before you arrived, and everything from your connection date forward is preserved automatically from then on.
Beyond connecting, keep two kinds of export current: a full CSV of all trades (your raw backup, openable in Excel), and the yearly report for any period a bank or tax office might ask about. If you trade on both exchanges, keep both, in one place, so "show me everything" is one action and not a scavenger hunt across two platforms with two different retention clocks.
Two exchanges, one record
Merchants increasingly run on both Bybit and Bitget to chase the best spread and the deepest liquidity. That is good business, but it doubles your record-keeping problem: two histories, two retention windows, two export formats, and a bank that does not care which platform a given credit came from.
The fix is to unify them. Store both exchanges’ trades in one permanent ledger, tagged by exchange, so your profit, your totals and your proof documents cover everything you do in one view. Then the shorter Bitget window stops being a liability, because your own copy never expires regardless of what the exchange keeps.