diff --git a/java/google/registry/config/files/default-config.yaml b/java/google/registry/config/files/default-config.yaml
index bce2a2f9d..aaea0951a 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/config/files/default-config.yaml
+++ b/java/google/registry/config/files/default-config.yaml
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ registryPolicy:
     the WHOIS database, and may modify these terms at any time.
 
 datastore:
-  # Number of commit log buckets in Datastore. Don't change after initial
-  # install.
-  commitLogBucketsNum: 100
+  # Number of commit log buckets in Datastore. Lowering this after initial
+  # install risks losing up to a days' worth of differential backups.
+  commitLogBucketsNum: 397
 
   # Number of EPP resource index buckets in Datastore. Don’t change after
   # initial install.
diff --git a/java/google/registry/env/crash/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml b/java/google/registry/env/crash/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
index 9cf3a5a46..730f04024 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/env/crash/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
+++ b/java/google/registry/env/crash/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     <description>
       This job checkpoints the commit log buckets and exports the diff since last checkpoint to GCS.
     </description>
-    <schedule>every 1 minutes synchronized</schedule>
+    <schedule>every 3 minutes synchronized</schedule>
     <target>backend</target>
   </cron>
 
diff --git a/java/google/registry/env/sandbox/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml b/java/google/registry/env/sandbox/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
index b410c933d..ad4e01208 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/env/sandbox/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
+++ b/java/google/registry/env/sandbox/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
     <description>
       This job checkpoints the commit log buckets and exports the diff since last checkpoint to GCS.
     </description>
-    <schedule>every 1 minutes synchronized</schedule>
+    <schedule>every 3 minutes synchronized</schedule>
     <target>backend</target>
   </cron>