diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3adf9c8..459a725 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -339,6 +339,29 @@ dependencies = [
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+dependencies = [
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+ "clap",
+ "flate2",
+ "google-cloud",
+ "inotify",
+ "tar",
+ "tokio",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
+]
+
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+checksum = "3441f0f7b02788e948e47f457ca01f1d7e6d92c693bc132c22b087d3141c03ff"
+
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+checksum = "90bc066a67923782aa8515dbaea16946c5bcc5addbd668bb80af688e53e548a0"
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b3855a8a784b474f333699ef2bbca9db2c4a1f6d9088a90a2d25b1eb53111eaa"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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+dependencies = [
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+]
+
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@@ -1069,6 +1110,7 @@ dependencies = [
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  "axum-macros",
  "axum-otel-metrics",
+ "backuplit",
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  "chrono",
@@ -1082,6 +1124,8 @@ dependencies = [
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  "futures-util",
+ "google-cloud",
+ "inotify",
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  "lightning-invoice",
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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+dependencies = [
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+ "libc",
+ "redox_syscall",
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
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+
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+checksum = "46303f565772937ffe1d394a4fac6f411c6013172fadde9dcdb1e147a086940e"
+dependencies = [
+ "crc32fast",
+ "miniz_oxide",
+]
+
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+ "futures",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "hyper 0.14.28",
+ "hyper-rustls 0.22.1",
+ "jsonwebtoken",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "prost",
+ "prost-types",
+ "reqwest",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+ "tonic",
+ "tonic-build",
+]
+
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+ "indexmap 2.2.5",
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+ "tokio-util 0.7.10",
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+ "indexmap 2.2.5",
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+ "tokio-util 0.7.10",
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+checksum = "6d621efb26863f0e9924c6ac577e8275e5e6b77455db64ffa6c65c904e9e132c"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-segmentation",
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+
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+checksum = "e3d1354bf6b7235cb4a0576c2619fd4ed18183f689b12b006a0ee7329eeff9a5"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+]
+
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+checksum = "5f9f7a97316d44c0af9b0301e65010573a853a9fc97046d7331d7f6bc0fd5a64"
+dependencies = [
+ "ct-logs",
+ "futures-util",
+ "hyper 0.14.28",
+ "log",
+ "rustls 0.19.1",
+ "rustls-native-certs",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.22.0",
+ "webpki 0.21.4",
+]
+
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+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+ "hashbrown 0.12.3",
+]
+
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fdd168d97690d0b8c412d6b6c10360277f4d7ee495c5d0d5d5fe0854923255cc"
+dependencies = [
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+ "futures-core",
+ "inotify-sys",
+ "libc",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
+[[package]]
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+checksum = "e05c02b5e89bff3b946cedeca278abc628fe811e604f027c45a8aa3cf793d0eb"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "284f18f85651fe11e8a991b2adb42cb078325c996ed026d994719efcfca1d54b"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
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  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls 0.25.0",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.10",
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  "url",
  "webpki-roots 0.26.1",
@@ -2222,6 +2400,20 @@ dependencies = [
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+version = "7.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "afabcc15e437a6484fc4f12d0fd63068fe457bf93f1c148d3d9649c60b103f32"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.12.3",
+ "pem",
+ "ring 0.16.20",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "simple_asn1",
+]
+
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+[[package]]
+name = "multimap"
+version = "0.8.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e5ce46fe64a9d73be07dcbe690a38ce1b293be448fd8ce1e6c1b8062c9f72c6a"
+
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+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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+dependencies = [
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+ "num-integer",
+ "num-traits",
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+
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+dependencies = [
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
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+ "indexmap 2.2.5",
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+dependencies = [
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+]
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+dependencies = [
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+dependencies = [
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+ "heck 0.3.3",
+ "itertools 0.9.0",
+ "log",
+ "multimap",
+ "petgraph",
+ "prost",
+ "prost-types",
+ "tempfile",
+ "which",
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+
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+dependencies = [
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+ "proc-macro2",
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+
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+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "prost",
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+
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  "ipnet",
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+ "sct 0.6.1",
+ "webpki 0.21.4",
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+
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- "webpki",
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+ "webpki 0.22.4",
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- "sct",
+ "sct 0.7.1",
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+[[package]]
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+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5a07b7c1885bd8ed3831c289b7870b13ef46fe0e856d288c30d9cc17d75a2092"
+dependencies = [
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+ "rustls 0.19.1",
+ "schannel",
+ "security-framework",
+]
+
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+dependencies = [
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+dependencies = [
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+ "num-bigint",
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
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+dependencies = [
+ "filetime",
+ "libc",
+ "xattr",
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+ "webpki 0.21.4",
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+
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+ "tokio-util 0.7.10",
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 [[package]]
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+dependencies = [
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+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "log",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
 version = "0.7.10"
@@ -3803,11 +4175,53 @@ version = "0.20.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "396e4d48bbb2b7554c944bde63101b5ae446cff6ec4a24227428f15eb72ef338"
 dependencies = [
- "indexmap",
+ "indexmap 2.2.5",
  "toml_datetime",
  "winnow",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tonic"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2ac42cd97ac6bd2339af5bcabf105540e21e45636ec6fa6aae5e85d44db31be0"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-stream",
+ "async-trait",
+ "base64 0.13.1",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-util",
+ "h2 0.3.25",
+ "http 0.2.12",
+ "http-body 0.4.6",
+ "hyper 0.14.28",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project",
+ "prost",
+ "prost-derive",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.22.0",
+ "tokio-stream",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.10",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-futures",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tonic-build"
+version = "0.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c695de27302f4697191dda1c7178131a8cb805463dda02864acb80fe1322fdcf"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "prost-build",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 1.0.109",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tower"
 version = "0.4.13"
@@ -3816,9 +4230,13 @@ checksum = "b8fa9be0de6cf49e536ce1851f987bd21a43b771b09473c3549a6c853db37c1c"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-util",
+ "indexmap 1.9.3",
  "pin-project",
  "pin-project-lite",
+ "rand",
+ "slab",
  "tokio",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.10",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -3888,6 +4306,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "valuable",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-futures"
+version = "0.2.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "97d095ae15e245a057c8e8451bab9b3ee1e1f68e9ba2b4fbc18d0ac5237835f2"
+dependencies = [
+ "pin-project",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-log"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -3969,6 +4397,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tinyvec",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-segmentation"
+version = "1.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d4c87d22b6e3f4a18d4d40ef354e97c90fcb14dd91d7dc0aa9d8a1172ebf7202"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "untrusted"
 version = "0.7.1"
@@ -4150,6 +4584,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "webpki"
+version = "0.21.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b8e38c0608262c46d4a56202ebabdeb094cef7e560ca7a226c6bf055188aa4ea"
+dependencies = [
+ "ring 0.16.20",
+ "untrusted 0.7.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "webpki"
 version = "0.22.4"
@@ -4175,6 +4619,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustls-pki-types",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "which"
+version = "4.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87ba24419a2078cd2b0f2ede2691b6c66d8e47836da3b6db8265ebad47afbfc7"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+ "home",
+ "once_cell",
+ "rustix",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi"
 version = "0.3.9"
@@ -4366,6 +4822,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "tap",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "xattr"
+version = "1.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8da84f1a25939b27f6820d92aed108f83ff920fdf11a7b19366c27c4cda81d4f"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "linux-raw-sys",
+ "rustix",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zerocopy"
 version = "0.7.32"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 63865f1..f8adb42 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 [workspace]
-members = [
-    "multimint",
-    "fedimint-clientd",
-]
+members = ["multimint", "fedimint-clientd"]
 resolver = "2"
diff --git a/fedimint-clientd/Cargo.toml b/fedimint-clientd/Cargo.toml
index 48bc684..5519f92 100644
--- a/fedimint-clientd/Cargo.toml
+++ b/fedimint-clientd/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,3 +40,6 @@ futures-util = "0.3.30"
 clap = { version = "4.4.13", features = ["derive", "env"] }
 multimint = { path = "../multimint" }
 axum-otel-metrics = "0.8.0"
+inotify = "0.10.2"
+google-cloud = { version = "0.2.1", features = ["storage"] }
+backuplit = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/fedimint-clientd/src/main.rs b/fedimint-clientd/src/main.rs
index b97b894..40aa50a 100644
--- a/fedimint-clientd/src/main.rs
+++ b/fedimint-clientd/src/main.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ use state::AppState;
 // use tower_http::cors::{Any, CorsLayer};
 use tower_http::validate_request::ValidateRequestHeaderLayer;
 
+use crate::utils::start_backup_daemon;
+
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, ValueEnum, PartialEq)]
 enum Mode {
     Rest,
@@ -63,6 +65,58 @@ struct Cli {
     /// Mode: ws, rest
     #[clap(long, env = "FEDIMINT_CLIENTD_MODE", default_value = "rest")]
     mode: Mode,
+
+    /// Enable Google Cloud backup
+    #[clap(long, env = "USE_GOOGLE_CLOUD_BACKUP")]
+    use_google_cloud_backup: bool,
+
+    /// Google Cloud Storage Bucket ID
+    #[clap(
+        long,
+        env = "GOOGLE_CLOUD_BACKUP_BUCKET_ID",
+        required_if_eq("use_google_cloud_backup", "true")
+    )]
+    google_cloud_backup_bucket_id: Option<String>,
+
+    /// Google Cloud Storage Credentials
+    #[clap(
+        long,
+        env = "GOOGLE_CLOUD_BACKUP_CREDENTIALS",
+        required_if_eq("use_google_cloud_backup", "true")
+    )]
+    google_cloud_backup_credentials: Option<String>,
+
+    /// Google Cloud Storage Backup Name
+    #[clap(
+        long,
+        env = "GOOGLE_CLOUD_BACKUP_NAME",
+        required_if_eq("use_google_cloud_backup", "true")
+    )]
+    google_cloud_backup_name: Option<String>,
+
+    /// Google Cloud Storage Backup Trigger
+    #[clap(
+        long,
+        env = "GOOGLE_CLOUD_BACKUP_TRIGGER",
+        required_if_eq("use_google_cloud_backup", "true")
+    )]
+    google_cloud_backup_trigger: Option<String>,
+
+    /// Google Cloud Backup Interval Type (seconds, minutes, hours, days)
+    #[clap(
+        long,
+        env = "GOOGLE_CLOUD_BACKUP_INTERVAL_TYPE",
+        required_if_eq("use_google_cloud_backup", "true")
+    )]
+    google_cloud_backup_interval_type: Option<String>,
+
+    /// Google Cloud Backup Interval Value
+    #[clap(
+        long,
+        env = "GOOGLE_CLOUD_BACKUP_INTERVAL_VALUE",
+        required_if_eq("use_google_cloud_backup", "true")
+    )]
+    google_cloud_backup_interval_value: Option<u64>,
 }
 
 // const PID_FILE: &str = "/tmp/fedimint_http.pid";
@@ -73,8 +127,9 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
     dotenv::dotenv().ok();
 
     let cli: Cli = Cli::parse();
+    start_backup_daemon(&cli).await?;
 
-    let mut state = AppState::new(cli.db_path).await?;
+    let mut state = AppState::new(cli.db_path.clone()).await?;
 
     let manual_secret = match cli.manual_secret {
         Some(secret) => Some(secret),
diff --git a/fedimint-clientd/src/utils.rs b/fedimint-clientd/src/utils.rs
index 5321a72..cd1413a 100644
--- a/fedimint-clientd/src/utils.rs
+++ b/fedimint-clientd/src/utils.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-use std::time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
+use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
 
 use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
+use backuplit::{BackupTrigger, BackuplitBuilder};
+
+use crate::Cli;
 
 // Helper function to convert SystemTime to u64
 pub fn system_time_to_u64(time: SystemTime) -> Result<u64> {
@@ -9,3 +12,42 @@ pub fn system_time_to_u64(time: SystemTime) -> Result<u64> {
         Err(_) => Err(anyhow!("some error")),
     }
 }
+
+pub async fn start_backup_daemon(cli: &Cli) -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
+    if let Some(bucket_id) = cli.google_cloud_backup_bucket_id.clone() {
+        if let Some(credential) = cli.google_cloud_backup_credentials.clone() {
+            if let Some(name) = cli.google_cloud_backup_name.clone() {
+                if let (Some(interval_type), Some(interval_value)) = (
+                    cli.google_cloud_backup_interval_type.as_ref(),
+                    cli.google_cloud_backup_interval_value,
+                ) {
+                    let trigger = match interval_type.as_str() {
+                        "seconds" => BackupTrigger::Interval(Duration::from_secs(interval_value)),
+                        "minutes" => {
+                            BackupTrigger::Interval(Duration::from_secs(interval_value * 60))
+                        }
+                        "hours" => {
+                            BackupTrigger::Interval(Duration::from_secs(interval_value * 3600))
+                        }
+                        "days" => {
+                            BackupTrigger::Interval(Duration::from_secs(interval_value * 86400))
+                        }
+                        _ => BackupTrigger::default(),
+                    };
+                    let backup = BackuplitBuilder::new()
+                        .dir_path(cli.db_path.clone())
+                        .bucket_id(bucket_id)
+                        .credential(credential)
+                        .backup_name(name)
+                        .backup_trigger(trigger)
+                        .build();
+                    backup.watch_and_backup().await;
+
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Err(anyhow!("Backup configuration is incomplete. To use Google Cloud Backup, you must provide a bucket ID, credentials, and name."))
+}