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title: How to make per-application backups
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## Multiple backup configurations
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You may find yourself wanting to create different backup policies for
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different applications on your system. For instance, you may want one backup
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configuration for your database data directory, and a different configuration
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for your user home directories.
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The way to accomplish that is pretty simple: Create multiple separate
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configuration files and place each one in a `/etc/borgmatic.d/` directory. For
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instance:
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```bash
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sudo mkdir /etc/borgmatic.d
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sudo generate-borgmatic-config --destination /etc/borgmatic.d/app1.yaml
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sudo generate-borgmatic-config --destination /etc/borgmatic.d/app2.yaml
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```
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When you set up multiple configuration files like this, borgmatic will run
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each one in turn from a single borgmatic invocation. This includes, by
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default, the traditional `/etc/borgmatic/config.yaml` as well.
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And if you need even more customizability, you can specify alternate
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configuration paths on the command-line with borgmatic's `--config` option.
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See `borgmatic --help` for more information.
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## Related documentation
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* [How to set up backups with borgmatic](../../docs/how-to/set-up-backups.md)
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* [borgmatic README](../../)
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