# Flows Disappeared

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flows-disappeared/29935>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [12 July 2020 06:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flows-disappeared/29935 "2020-07-12T06:45:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [12 July 2020 21:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/flows-disappeared/29935/48 "2020-07-12T21:45:27Z")

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PS  
I HIGHLY recommend this simple (as long as you've got a dropbox account that is) for daily backing up - only been using it for a few days but its looks like a very simple backup solution

> [@node-RED Backup Flow](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-backup-flow/25033):
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> I read a [post a few days ago](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ive-lost-everything-connection-lost-to-machine-error-subflow-connections/24782) by @Trying_to_learn about losing his node-RED flow, which had taken him no doubt many hours to construct, and as his backup was on the same machine - he lost that too. So... I've spent a few days looking at off-site storage, and stumbled upon node-red-contrib-dsm which was written by @cflurin complete with an example flow to perform automated backups to dropbox. [dsm] I played about with the configuration, and made some changes to the way that the backups are stor…

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PS the nights it missed off were nights I was updating NR and forgot to restart it!

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