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A [3-2-1 backup strategy](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/) is recommended to protect your data. You should keep copies of your uploaded photos/videos as well as the Immich database for a comprehensive backup solution. This page provides an overview on how to backup the database and the location of user-uploaded pictures and videos. A template bash script that can be run as a cron job is provided [here](/docs/guides/template-backup-script.md)
:::danger
The instructions on this page show you how to prepare your Immich instance to be backed up, and which files to take a backup of. You still need to take care of using an actual backup tool to make a backup yourself.
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## Database
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### Automatic Database Backups
Immich will automatically create database backups by default. The backups are stored in `UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups`.
For convenience, Immich will automatically create database backups by default. The backups are stored in `UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups`.
As mentioned above, you should make your own backup of these together with the asset folders as noted below.
You can adjust the schedule and amount of kept backups in the [admin settings](http://my.immich.app/admin/system-settings?isOpen=backup).
By default, Immich will keep the last 14 backups and create a new backup every day at 2:00 AM.