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NOTE: If your Metabase is currently running it's best to shut down the Metabase process before making a backup copy of the file. Then, restart the application.
### Amazon RDS for the Database Application
Amazon has its own best practices on how to backup and restore RDS databases, so we'll defer to them. We recommend that you enable automated RDS Backups.
Amazon has its own best practices on how to backup and restore RDS databases, so we'll defer to them. We recommend that you enable automated RDS Backups.
Instructions can be found in the [Amazon RDS User Guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html).
Instructions can be found in the [Amazon RDS User Guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html).
### Self-managed PostgreSQL or MySQL database
Simply follow the same instructions you would use for making any normal database backup. It's a large topic more fit for a DBA to answer, but as long as you have a dump of the Metabase database you'll be good to go.