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title: 'Backing up your Actual budget'
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:::note

This only applies to Actual Web

:::

You can export your data from Actual at any time. To do so,
1. Login to your budget and click the three dots

   ![](/img/actual-config-4.png)

2. Select Settings

   ![](/img/actual-config-5.png)
3. Scroll down to the Export section and click Export Data

   ![](/img/actual-config-6.png)
4. Save the file somewhere on your computer - that is it done.

## Manually creating a backup from the desktop app

This will force a backup to be created right now. Do this if you are going to do something that you might want to revert later (and don't want to use [undo](/Getting-Started/tipstricks/#undoredo)).

* Select the **File > Load Backup…** menu item
* Click **Backup Now**
