# Help with functions

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-with-functions/48746>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [22 July 2021 01:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-with-functions/48746 "2021-07-22T01:29:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul-Reed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/paul-reed/32/66906_2.png) [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)\
**Post date:** [25 July 2021 10:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-with-functions/48746/35 "2021-07-25T10:12:35Z")

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Need I say more Ron...

> [@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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