# Backup without personal data
**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/backup-without-personal-data/11158
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [June 9, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/backup-without-personal-data/11158 "2011-06-09T02:15:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@elypter](https://resource.dopus.com/u/elypter)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/backup-without-personal-data/11158/1 "2011-06-09T02:15:33Z")
Is there a way to backup directory opus without any personal data and data that is specific for this PC, or is there a list of those setting files?
What should not be in it for example:
[ul][li]favorites[/li]
[li]ftp data[/li]
[li]logs[/li]
[li]license data[/li]
[li]Collections[/li][/ul]
This would allow me to easily share my customizations with friends and people on this forum without having to worry about releasing personal data and allowing them to start with a clean configuration.
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### Author:  [@AlbatorV](https://resource.dopus.com/u/AlbatorV)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/backup-without-personal-data/11158/2 "2011-06-09T04:51:30Z")
Backup file is a simple archive. So you can rename file to .zip and delete what you want...
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### Author:  [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/backup-without-personal-data/11158/3 "2011-06-09T07:10:40Z")
> [@elypter](#):
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> This would allow me to easily share my customizations with friends and people on this forum without having to worry about releasing personal data and allowing them to start with a clean configuration.
It's better to share the individual customisation, not a whole config, you don't wipe out all the user's settings when they install it.
If it's a button or a toolbar you want to share, you can save those to individual files for sharing.
If it's background images, you can make a theme.
Icons, you can make an icon-set.
Rename presets, can be exported to a file.
That doesn't leave much else, with most other tweaks (e.g. changes to Preferences settings) being better described in words than config files.
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### Author:  [@elypter](https://resource.dopus.com/u/elypter)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/backup-without-personal-data/11158/4 "2011-06-09T11:33:23Z")
> [@leo](#):
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> That doesn't leave much else, with most other tweaks (e.g. changes to Preferences settings) being better described in words than config files.
Thats the other problem: I started that profile years ago, so i don't remember most of the changes.
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### Author:  [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/backup-without-personal-data/11158/5 "2011-06-09T11:45:42Z")
And you want to give those unknown changes to other people with no way to tell them what alterations it'll make to their configurations? Doesn't seem like a good idea. 🙂