# How to disable backup feature **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [December 27, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880 "2023-12-27T12:30:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guillempalausalva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/guillempalausalva/32/34258_2.png) [@guillempalausalva](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/guillempalausalva)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/1 "2023-12-27T12:30:33Z")
Hi, Since I use Anki 23.10.X and onwards the backup dialog gets frozen and I can no longer use Anki unless I kill the process and start again. I am not sure how to trigger the issue exactly. I know that having the browser window open for a while seems to be a requirement. Rather than identifying the hard-to-reproduce bug, I would like to ask how can I disable backups to begin with. Seems that it’s a setting that cannot be disabled. I made an [add-on](https://github.com/guillem-palau-salva/Anki-NoExitBackups/tree/master) for that matter which I used for 3 years, but it broke with 23.X update. My two collections are large and the backups while using Anki are a complete nightmare. I do the backups on command while not using Anki. ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2023, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/2 "2023-12-28T06:14:01Z")
It’s not possible to completely disable backups. Can you reproduce the problem in 23.12? Can you reproduce it with add-ons disabled? ---
**Author:** ![guillempalausalva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/guillempalausalva/32/34258_2.png) [@guillempalausalva](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/guillempalausalva)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/3 "2024-01-03T11:33:55Z")
I cannot reproduce the issue after some useage with no add-ons. I installed no add-ons in a while, even before updating Anki. So I am afraid some add-on is causing this after updating. I disabled all add-ons related to backups before writting here. I will be renabeling add-ons one by one to indentify which one is causing the issue. At any rate, I would like to update my add-on to disable the backup from triggering. I remember it was straight to do with monkey patching but I lost familiarity with the code base for some years. a guidance which function to patch or hook to use will be apreciated. ---
**Author:** ![guillempalausalva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/guillempalausalva/32/34258_2.png) [@guillempalausalva](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/guillempalausalva)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/4 "2024-01-04T18:22:56Z")
I finally found the add-on causing the issue, turns out is actually the last add-on I installed: [Grid fields](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/updating-multi-column-note-editor-add-on/36375/4) from @abdo (not the one from ankiweb) Abdo, if its not too time-consuming, could you check it out? When the backup triggers Anki freezes. That happens when the browser window is open (and I guess the add-on is active as it only works on the browser window). Having the browser window open for long increases the likehood of triggering the issue. I usually check ChagtGPT to explain sentences and then generate some images so this process is a good way to try reproducing it. All Anki 23.X versions I used had this issue. Not 100% of the times, but most of the time. Enough to kill Anki process several times per hour. ---
**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/5 "2024-01-04T20:42:39Z")
Hmm, I can’t think of anything in the add-on that could cause this. It’s a pretty typical editor add-on, and doesn’t do any long-running operations that could block backups. Can you try running Anki from the console and see if you get any interesting output when the issue occurs? ---
**Author:** ![guillempalausalva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/guillempalausalva/32/34258_2.png) [@guillempalausalva](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/guillempalausalva)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/6 "2024-01-15T19:09:19Z")
I triggered the issue a few times a day without your add-on. At least I can say it happens a lot more frequently when running grid fields. I am still unsure what is the real cause. By the way, could you lead me to which methods to monkey patch to disable backups? I think that would be easier to achieve. ---
**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/7 "2024-01-21T04:09:08Z")
This should work: ```python from anki.collection import Collection def do_nothing(*args, **kwargs): pass Collection.create_backup = do_nothing ``` It disables all backups. Even _File \> Create Backup_ won’t work. It’s not possible to selectively disable periodic backups. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-disable-backup-feature/38880/8 "2024-02-20T04:09:34Z")
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