# BACKUP FILES FOLDER SETTING

This setting controls where AyaNova stores backup and restore files used by the backup and restore features built into AyaNova.

Warning: this folder MUST NOT be the same location set for [AYANOVA_ATTACHMENT_FILES_PATH](ops-config-folder-user-files.md) or [AYANOVA_TEMP_FILES_PATH](ops-config-folder-temporary-files.md) or AyaNova will not start.

## Default

If no override is specified AyaNova will store backup files in a `backup` folder in the location specified by [AYANOVA_DATA_PATH](ops-config-data-path.md) setting.

## Overriding

AyaNova expects the backup files folder path to be provided by a config.json property, environment variable or command line parameter named

`AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH`

The value specified should be a string containing a fully qualified file path for the platform, for example:
`c:\ProgramData\ayanova\backupfiles`

Example config.json entry

```json
{
  ...other properties...
  "AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH": "c:\ProgramData\ayanova\backupfiles"
}
```

Example command line parameter

`ayanova.exe --AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH="/var/lib/ayanova/backupfiles"`

Example environment variable

Windows

`set "AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH=c:\ProgramData\ayanova\backupfiles"`

Linux / MAC

`export AYANOVA_BACKUP_FILES_PATH="/var/lib/ayanova/backupfiles"`