# Database Maintenance

All your data is stored in a local SQLite database. To prevent data loss, it's highly recommended to back up your data regularly.

### How can I access this feature?

Go to **Settings > Advanced > Data Management**. Find the "Database Maintenance" section.

There are 3 operations you can do:

1. Take a full backup: take a back up of your SQLite database
2. Optimize Full-text Search index: optimize the FTS index for your chat data
3. Reclaim Disk Space: perform a `VACCUMN` operation.

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### How to restore a backup?

Your database is stored in this location:

* For website version: `~/Library/Application Support/co.podzim.BoltGPT/db.sqlite`
* For Setapp version: `~/Library/Application Support/co.podzim.BoltGPT-setapp/db.sqlite`

To restore your backup:

1. Make sure you've taken a full backup of your database
2. Quit BoltAI
3. Copy and place the `backup.db` to the location above
4. Open BoltAI&#x20;

{% hint style="danger" %}
**WARNING**

* Unlike the data import & export feature, this operation will replace your data completely.
* Make sure you've taken a full backup before proceeding or it might result in data loss.
  {% endhint %}


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