# Automatic Admin settings backups **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-admin-settings-backups/321654 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [August 14, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-admin-settings-backups/321654 "2024-08-14T15:24:05Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![wal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wal) #### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-admin-settings-backups/321654/1 "2024-08-14T15:24:05Z")
We have methods for automatic backups of the Discourse site [Configure automatic backups for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855) and there are methods for backing up the Admin settings to a YAML file [Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349#exportimport-all-site-settings-9) It would be nice if the Admin panel could have a setting to simply automatically backup the Admin settings. Especially if it did an automatic backup every time a new setting was changed. I understand there is a db table that holds these settings (described here [Backup only Site Settings - #2 by dax](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-only-site-settings/78150/2) ) which holds these settings, supposedly that would be included in the full site backups, however, it would be a lot more convenient to have copies of the YAML file output as described here [How can I import/export settings into a file? - #4 by codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-import-export-settings-into-a-file/51496/4) to be saved automatically as a backup file as well, similar to how the `container/app.yml` is already handled. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-admin-settings-backups/321654)._