# Backup Strategies

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**Category:** Tips\
**Created:** [February 14, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/backup-strategies/61940 "2021-02-14T12:57:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 25, 2022, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/backup-strategies/61940/78 "2022-06-25T10:20:33Z")

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> [@JCHHenderson](#):
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> Using the ‘daily backup script’ is manual so is there an easy way of automating this? If one is backing the backups, and Arq does retention etc, wouldn’t it be better if the ‘daily backup script’ didnlt create a new file each time (with the date in it)?

There’s quite an interesting discussion in [this thread](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/backup-all-open-databases/50932/11). I use a modified version of the script I posted there to backup all _open_ DEVONthink databases plus a Hazel rule that ensures I keep only the two most recent versions of each DEVONthink archive.

Stephen

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