# Configure automatic backups for Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855>\
**Category:** Self-Hosting\
**Tags:** backups, how-to\
**Created:** [April 18, 2014, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855 "2014-04-18T06:21:44Z")\
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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> It’d be overkill and expensive.

You back up your servers once a week?

I think your 500 mile oil change analogy would be a good answer for “why not keep 30 backups?”, but it doesn’t make sense to me here.

Do you not think that if you’re going to have 5 backups most people would rather have backups every day so that if they do have to revert to a backup they’ve lost no more than a day? The only time I remember an older backup being useful is when images fell out of tombstone.

If they have so little disk space that they can’t hold 5 backups, it would seem better to learn that in 5 days when they still have some memory of what they did than wait 4-5 weeks.

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