# Missing automatic backup functionality of Start9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/missing-automatic-backup-functionality-of-start9/3859 "2025-08-08T21:42:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Congster](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@Congster](https://community.start9.com/u/Congster)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/missing-automatic-backup-functionality-of-start9/3859/1 "2025-08-08T21:42:56Z")
Dear Start9, at first, thanks al lot for this precious piece of software. There is one topic which makes me unhappy: the lack of automatic backup feature of Start9. We all know about the importance of a solid backup which is not depended on user interaction. If the user needs for a regular backup to interact with the software, this will fail to the long run. Moreover, if somebody wanna run Start9 as a “serious” Lightning routing node, an automatic instant LND/CLN backup after EVERY single transaction is essential. Start9 has adopted some exciting projects in the last years, but of all things the backup aspect is less developed which is fatal. For now, because of this I will wait to change from Raspiblitz. Best regards ---
**Author:** ![StuPleb](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/stupleb/32/195_2.png) [@StuPleb](https://community.start9.com/u/StuPleb)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/missing-automatic-backup-functionality-of-start9/3859/2 "2025-08-09T16:36:12Z")
You don’t need to sell us on the idea – it’s a perfectly fine idea that we expect to incorporate eventually. Relying on automatic backups can be pretty dangerous though. You could be assuming they’re working when they’ve been failing for weeks. Notifications of successful and failed backups would only be seen when logging into the server, and if you’re going to do that to find out, you might as well trigger a manual backup. But yes, there’s a significant list of feature requests. Many we have plans for. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@Jesse](https://community.start9.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/missing-automatic-backup-functionality-of-start9/3859/3 "2025-08-11T01:57:57Z")
@Congster - @StuPleb is 100% correct that assuming automatic backups are working w/out checking is dangerous. With that caveat, I did put together a [guide](https://community.start9.com/t/guide-automating-backups-on-startos-3-5-1-requires-ssh/3551) for those willing to SSH into their StartOS servers to use cron to automate backups. If this is the only thing keeping you from migrating from Raspiblitz - take a look and see if it works for you… ---
**Author:** ![tennis](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tennis](https://community.start9.com/u/tennis)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/missing-automatic-backup-functionality-of-start9/3859/4 "2026-03-23T22:00:34Z")
This is true, but I guess most people have multiple backups. I’d love to have 1-2 USB sticks for my manual backups and one permanently attached to the computer, that get’s the auto-backups. This would also help with my server crashing every second week, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![StuPleb](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/stupleb/32/195_2.png) [@StuPleb](https://community.start9.com/u/StuPleb)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/missing-automatic-backup-functionality-of-start9/3859/5 "2026-03-24T12:37:51Z")
Yeah, I’d have lots of suggestions for autobackups too. One of them is cycling through backup targets. Another is optionally expanding them to take multiple dated snapshots. That, plus robust notifications, should be enough to elevate all my concerns mentioned above.