# Homey pro 2023 backup
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Created:** [March 8, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331 "2025-03-08T15:59:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Smarthus1](https://community.homey.app/u/Smarthus1)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331/1 "2025-03-08T15:59:20Z")
Hi
Can someone please explain to me which backup variant that backup most data, flows, apps, settings between local backup and cloud backup?
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### Author:  [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331/2 "2025-03-08T16:16:38Z")
Cloud backups don’t back up apps (only which apps were installed when making the backup; when restoring, the _latest_ version of the app will get installed, not the version at the time the backup was made) and system (so you can’t revert to a previous version of Homey’s firmware).
Local backups make a system image, which includes _everything_.
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### Author:  [@Smarthus1](https://community.homey.app/u/Smarthus1)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331/3 "2025-03-09T15:11:21Z")
Ok. So cloud backups include flows,settings,everything but the apps?
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### Author:  [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331/4 "2025-03-09T15:28:04Z")
Everything but the apps (but it does contain app settings/config/devices/etc) and the system files (which are part of the firmware).
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331/5 "2025-03-09T18:01:51Z")
N.B. apps installed from any other source but the app store aren’t backupped / restored. Their settings + devices are, so when re-installing such an app yourself, after a restore action, everything’s back.
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### Author:  [@Smarthus1](https://community.homey.app/u/Smarthus1)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-pro-2023-backup/132331/6 "2025-03-10T22:29:35Z")
Ok thanks.