How do we make a backup of our files in Adobe Experience Manager?

[Tam123456]

How do we download all our assets that are on Adobe Experience Manager into an external hard drive? Is there an easy way to do this or do we have to download folder by folder?

[Saravanan_Dharmaraj]

@Tam123456 Please check this Adobe doc for the same
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/assets/managing/download-assets-from-a...

[DPrakashRaj]

Yes you can achieve this by curl command. Wondering why you want to use this as dam asset size will be very big

[Tam123456]

I was asking just to know. Maybe to have a backup just in case. Our entire assets are under 600GB. How would I use a curl command to save to an external HD?

[DPrakashRaj · Accepted solution]

Curl command d with -o option can help. You can add the location of any drive/folder and package name after -o. I still think 600 gb is too much. Better take a instance backup of your aem