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title: "Configuring Backy"
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  This page tells you how to configure Backy.
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This is the section on the config file.

To use a specific file:
```backy [command] -f /path/to/file```

If you leave the config path blank, the following paths will be searched in order:

1. `./backy.yml`
2. `./backy.yaml`
3. The same two files above contained in a `backy` subdirectory under in what is returned by Go's `os` package function `UserConfigDir()`.

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Up-to date documentation for this function may be found on [GoDoc](https://pkg.go.dev/os#UserConfigDir).

>UserConfigDir returns the default root directory to use for user-specific configuration data. Users should create their own application-specific subdirectory within this one and use that.

>On Unix systems, it returns $XDG_CONFIG_HOME as specified by https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html if non-empty, else $HOME/.config. On Darwin, it returns $HOME/Library/Application Support. On Windows, it returns %AppData%. On Plan 9, it returns $home/lib.

>If the location cannot be determined (for example, $HOME is not defined), then it will return an error.

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See the rest of the documentation, titles included below, in this section to configure it.

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