# Multiple Daily Backups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-daily-backups/211951
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-daily-backups/211951 "2021-12-13T12:37:11Z")
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### Author: ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-daily-backups/211951/16 "2021-12-14T13:25:44Z")

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There’s another thread here: [Configure automatic backups for Discourse - #113 by Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855/113)

@pfaffman made a few recommendations there with links. This lead me the command line as a way of scheduling more frequent backups, which for me is a pretty reasonable solution:

> [@Backup discourse from the command line](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-discourse-from-the-command-line/64364):
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> bookmark This guide covers how to back up and restore your Discourse site using command line tools, specifically designed for self-hosted environments. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator information_source You can use the below placeholders to automatically fill out the command line prompts in this guide: Backing up To create a backup of your Discourse site, follow these steps: Enter the container: ./launcher enter app Run the backup: discourse backup…

Note that with this solution you could combine it all in a python script to also schedule a copy of the yaml file etc at the same time

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