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# View Folder for Database Backups
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1. On the primary Conductor web interface, choose **Configuration** (cog icon) on the main menu.

1. On the **Conductor Configuration** screen, review the management database fields. 

   In the following example, the system creates backups every 24 hours and five consecutive backup files are saved. When the system creates the sixth backup, the it deletes the oldest file before saving the most recent backup.  
![](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elemental-cf2/latest/configguide/images/bkup-mgmt-shared-png.png)

Backup files are named in this format: `<yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss.tar.bz2>`

**Important**  
Similar database fields also appear in the **Settings** > **General** screen on the worker nodes. When the workers are part of a cluster, the system ignores the values set on the worker nodes.