# What is the recommend/best practise backup setup?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install, backups\
**Created:** [July 8, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-recommend-best-practise-backup-setup/270994 "2023-07-08T18:09:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-recommend-best-practise-backup-setup/270994/1 "2023-07-08T18:09:24Z")

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I’m running a discourse instance as a lxc container on premise on a proxmox pve. I also have a NAS (nfs and samba) on-site, which gets backuped regularly to another location.  
How would you implement backups of the discourse installation in this case? Use the discourse build in backup mechanism and clone the backup folder via rsync to the NAS or backup the complete lxc container using the proxmox backup mechanism or completely different?  
Thanks for sharing any best practise!  
Simon

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