# Data Backup The `backup` example script shows how to use the SFTPGo REST API to backup your data. The script is written in Python and has the following requirements: - python3 or python2 - python [Requests](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/) module The provided example tries to connect to an SFTPGo instance running on `127.0.0.1:8080` using the following credentials: - username: `admin` - password: `password` and, if you execute it daily, it saves a different backup file for each day of the week. The backups will be saved within the configured `backups_path`. Please edit the script according to your needs.