# Explanation about Automatic Backup in ACOS **URL:** \ **Category:** System\ **Created:** [June 11, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/explanation-about-automatic-backup-in-acos/606 "2020-06-11T15:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Morato](https://community.a10networks.com/u/Morato)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/explanation-about-automatic-backup-in-acos/606/1 "2020-06-11T15:06:13Z")
Hi, I’m not understand well how the automatic backup in ACOS works. When I going to configure that, on system → maintenance → backup automatic, I noticed I can choose fields week, day, hour, that ask me choose for enter a number there. How these automatic backup works? I’ll so glad if somebody help me understand the logic with automatic backup configuration. Thanks, Morato 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Morato](https://community.a10networks.com/u/Morato)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/explanation-about-automatic-backup-in-acos/606/2 "2020-06-11T15:08:52Z")
One example: Think I wanted to do backup runs every week, how I configure that in automatic backup? ---
**Author:** ![mdunn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@mdunn](https://community.a10networks.com/u/mdunn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.a10networks.com/t/explanation-about-automatic-backup-in-acos/606/3 "2020-06-12T20:03:51Z")
Hello - If you set the “week” value to “1” then the backup will run every week from the time you entered the command. You can use the “show backup” command to see the configured interval as well as the next backup time.