# Any way to take backup in single file

**URL:** <https://community.cratedb.com/t/any-way-to-take-backup-in-single-file/1217>\
**Category:** CrateDB\
**Created:** [September 16, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/any-way-to-take-backup-in-single-file/1217 "2022-09-16T07:19:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Prahladp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e79b87/32.png) [@Prahladp](https://community.cratedb.com/u/Prahladp)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/any-way-to-take-backup-in-single-file/1217/1 "2022-09-16T07:19:23Z")

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In there any way to take backup on every day in single file from 3 node cluster and letter i can restore same on cluster.  
Because as we checked from COPY FROM/TO command multiple back up files are created on their local disk.

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**Author:** ![proddata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/proddata/32/1379_2.png) [@proddata](https://community.cratedb.com/u/proddata)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/any-way-to-take-backup-in-single-file/1217/2 "2022-09-16T08:04:02Z")

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Is it problematic, that there are multiple files? You can import multiple files at once with `COPY FROM` or import a whole folder.

For Backups in general you should probably rather use Snapshots though:

> **[Snapshots](https://crate.io/docs/crate/reference/en/5.0/admin/snapshots.html)**
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> Table of contents Snapshot- Creating a repository, Creating a snapshot., Restore- Restore data granularity., Cleanup- Dropping snapshots, Dropping ...

And manage the backups through CrateDB