# Aerospike backups

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-backups/5648>\
**Category:** asbackup & asrestore\
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-backups/5648 "2018-11-05T21:44:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Ren](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Ren)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-backups/5648/1 "2018-11-05T21:44:35Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to run incremental backups every 12 hours. For example running backup at 3:00 PM with parameters -a 2018-11-05 03:00:00 -b 2018-11-05 15:00:00 and nextday at 3 AM -a 2018-11-05 15:00:00 -b 2018-11-06 03:00:00.

My questions is till what time the backup will be taken when backup runs at 3PM does it backups from 3AM to 3PM or 3:01AM to 2:59 PM.