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

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**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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**Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-backup-multiple-times-a-day-and-are-they-safe-if-the-server-goes-down/298778/6 "2024-03-12T22:50:43Z")

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What is unsafe about s3?

If you don’t trust it for some reason you could use local storage and rsync the files elsewhere. But that would be less safe than s3.

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