# Should I backup /var/lib/cattle?

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**Created:** [July 16, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/should-i-backup-var-lib-cattle/3424 "2016-07-16T00:27:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/should-i-backup-var-lib-cattle/3424/1 "2016-07-16T00:27:08Z")

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I see that rancher-server mounts a volume to /var/lib/cattle

root@6eda51cd4b5f:/var/lib/cattle# ls -l  
total 16  
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 8 06:19 DATA  
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 105 Jun 9 00:31 keys.properties  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 16 00:01 logs  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 9 00:31 machine-drivers

Do I need to backup these files for disaster recovery?

I already dump and backup the mysql databases.  
Thanks