# Can I backup multiple times a day, and are they safe if the server goes down

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** backups\
**Created:** [March 10, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-backup-multiple-times-a-day-and-are-they-safe-if-the-server-goes-down/298778 "2024-03-10T21:18:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-backup-multiple-times-a-day-and-are-they-safe-if-the-server-goes-down/298778/12 "2024-03-13T01:30:59Z")

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I just can’t understand this why so many is against easy database backup more often. What’s behind it? Please, explain to me why with Discourse max 24 hours cap is not threat but it is everywhere else. My WordPress/Woocommerce does backups of database every 5 minutes and it has basically zero price tag.

From the very beginning of digital world there has been two universal truths:

- backups are quite often too old
- making backups must be automatic, because relying on human is guaranteed way to forget it

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