# Stop/Start sites!

**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/stop-start-sites/1614
**Category:** Community Guides
**Created:** [July 14, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/stop-start-sites/1614 "2022-07-14T09:58:30Z")
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### Author: ![designlobby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/designlobby/32/1308_2.png) [@designlobby](https://community.kinsta.com/u/designlobby)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/stop-start-sites/1614/1 "2022-07-14T09:58:30Z")

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Ayo just noticed this on startup, great job! 😍

Now what would be _really_ cool is; if on stopping a site a database backup could be automatically taken and dumped somewhere, like in the top level `devkinsta/public/sitename` directory! 🙏

ps. where do the databases live atm? Is there a docker directory somewhere that I can try to include in my workstation automatic backups?

Many thanks,  
Gareth  
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### Author: ![Kevin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/kevin/32/808_2.png) [@Kevin](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Kevin)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/stop-start-sites/1614/2 "2022-07-15T16:46:59Z")

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Hi @designlobby, thank you for the feedback!

I like the database backup idea! Please feel free to submit it as a [Feature Request](https://community.kinsta.com/c/feature-requests/6)! It never hurts to have more options for backups!

The running databases live on mounted volumes that are managed by Docker. There are [console commands](https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/#back-up-a-volume) for making backups of volumes which you could automate to match your automatic backup times.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/kinsta/original/2X/d/d044e8fc114a5fe54bb6fb0dc1bf6d0e13edaad9.png)

If you are on Mac, you’ll have to make sure you [enable](https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/#general) including VM in Time Machine backups. As far as I can tell that allows a full restore of Docker. There are discussions around the web about this, though.

Whatever method you choose, I recommend testing early on to make sure it works if you eventually need to restore!

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### Author: ![designlobby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/designlobby/32/1308_2.png) [@designlobby](https://community.kinsta.com/u/designlobby)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 11:04am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/stop-start-sites/1614/3 "2022-07-16T11:04:58Z")

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Hey Kevin 👋 I made a feature request. Thanks very much for the other info! 👍

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/kinsta/original/2X/8/80f8c4e56fecc02327a0964e6bf63a716483529f.png) [@system](https://community.kinsta.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/stop-start-sites/1614/4 "2022-10-14T11:05:43Z")

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