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# Make backups

LaunchPal automatically makes backups of your projects.

It takes a backup once a day.

In addition you can create a backup at any time manually.

Old backups are removed automatically. LaunchPal only keeps the most recent 7 backups available for you. Whether these were created automatically or manually.

⚠️ **When a backup is in process of being made you can not make changes to your project.**

## When to use backups

Backups are best suited to solve problems or test major changes. It allows you to rollbacks a change, intended or unintended.

Backups give you piece of mind.

You want to use [Templates](/getting-started/templates.md) when you want to save a project configuration as a base image to create new projects from.

[Change server](/getting-started/changing-servers.md) is there to change the location, type or host of a server.

## How to start a project from a backup

To see the available backups, click on your project title and select the `Backups` tab.

This will list any available backups.

To create a project from one of them, just click the `+` button to the right of the backup you want to use.

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You can then give your new project a name. Because its being created from a backup you don't need to select the App to use. After that its the usual project settings of Host, Location, Size, File management. Any of these can be changed.

## How to create a adhoc backup

Backups are created automatically for your project once a day. You can create your own backup manually in addition to that.

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Just click the `Backup Now` button which will start the backup process. You can see progress on the project overview screen.

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Its will only take a few minutes.

## How to roll back an existing project to a backup

This option is a great way to fix unintended problems.

For example you installed a Wordpress plugin that buggered up your project. Just roll back to a previous backup and it will restore your project like it was at the time of the backup.

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## How to delete backups

This is not possible at the moment.

Old backups get removed automatically.

Launchpal will keep the 7 most recent backups available for you.