# Backup and Restore

This page, available from the top menu once logged in, allows you to backup the entire database to a JSON file.\
This includes **all your categories**, and for **every file in the database**:

* The unique ID of the archive (For the more technologically-enclined: LRR uses a SHA-1 hash of the first 512KBs of the file as the ID)
* The saved tags
* The saved title

This JSON can then be restored in another LRR instance, if it has archives with matching unique IDs.

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You can also make backup JSONs with the `npm run backup-db` command or through the Client API.
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![Average backup.json](https://2810982854-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LPbsOo9_KVq_qSlpg5H-887967055%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-90b77c3cef3e1a41d1003a3a10bf062f93470186%2Fbackup.png?alt=media)