# How to customize the backup storage path

Explains the different ways you can customize your backup storage path(s).

## Different storage path options

When you connect a storage to SimpleBackups and create a backup job, there are multiple ways you can customize the backup destination (storage path).

1. **On the storage level** (Dropbox, S3, SFTP, etc..) you can set a path where all backup jobs can be stored under.
2. **On the backup job level**, you can set a path for a particular backup job.

→The **final path** of a backup job is: `storagePath/backupPath`

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Let us take a few examples into consideration.

Assuming you created a Dropbox storage (called STOR1) and created a database backup job (called BACKUP1) that uses Dropbox as a storage.

### Example 1 (no path on Storage and Backup)

- Set no default path on STOR1
- Set no backup storage path on BACKUP1
- The resulting backup will be stored at a unique location
- `Apps/SimpleBackups.io/SXXXX/mybackup-file.sql`

### Example 2 (custom storage path, empty backup path)

- Set a default path on STOR1, `my-backups`
- Set no backup storage path on BACKUP1
- The resulting backup will be stored at:

`Apps/SimpleBackups.io/my-backups/mybackup-file.sql`

### Example 3 (custom storage path, custom backup path)

- Set a default path on STOR1, `my-backups`
- Set a default backup storage path on BACKUP1, `database/daily`
- The resulting backup will be stored at:

`Apps/SimpleBackups.io/my-backups/database/daily/mybackup-file.sql`