# Create, download, and restore a backup of your Discourse database

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-download-and-restore-a-backup-of-your-discourse-database/122710
**Category:** Self-Hosting
**Tags:** backups, how-to
**Created:** [11 juli 2019 om 18:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-download-and-restore-a-backup-of-your-discourse-database/122710 "2019-07-11T18:39:08Z")
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### Author: ![mint\_saxon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mint_saxon/32/167253_2.png) [@mint\_saxon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mint_saxon)
#### Post date: [7 mei 2026 om 18:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-download-and-restore-a-backup-of-your-discourse-database/122710/67 "2026-05-07T18:48:56Z")

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Hi! I arrived here from the “Off-site backups for disaster recovery are created every 12 hours. To download a backup manually, see [our documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/122710).” link in a hosted Discourse site.

I was hoping to download one of the existing every-12-hours off-site backups. Is that possible? And if so, is that what’s meant by “download a backup manually”?

I don’t see any of these recent backups in the list, just two from last year.

For the moment, I just launched a new backup and I will download that.

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