diff --git a/modules/training.py b/modules/training.py
index c98cfc3b..855ed914 100644
--- a/modules/training.py
+++ b/modules/training.py
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import gradio as gr
 import torch
 import transformers
+
+import shutil
+from datetime import datetime
+
 from datasets import Dataset, load_dataset
 from peft import (
     LoraConfig,
@@ -208,6 +212,35 @@ def clean_path(base_path: str, path: str):
     return f'{Path(base_path).absolute()}/{path}'
 
 
+def backup_adapter(input_folder):
+    # Get the creation date of the file adapter_model.bin
+    try:
+        adapter_file = Path(f"{input_folder}/adapter_model.bin")
+        if adapter_file.is_file():
+
+            logger.info("Backing up existing LoRA adapter...")
+            creation_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(adapter_file.stat().st_ctime)
+            creation_date_str = creation_date.strftime("Backup-%Y-%m-%d")
+
+            # Create the new subfolder
+            subfolder_path = Path(f"{input_folder}/{creation_date_str}") 
+            subfolder_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+            # Check if the file already exists in the subfolder
+            backup_adapter_file = Path(f"{input_folder}/{creation_date_str}/adapter_model.bin")
+            if backup_adapter_file.is_file():
+                print(" - Backup already exists. Skipping backup process.")
+                return
+
+            # Copy existing files to the new subfolder
+            existing_files = Path(input_folder).iterdir()
+            for file in existing_files:
+                if file.is_file():
+                    shutil.copy2(file, subfolder_path)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print("An error occurred in backup_adapter:", str(e))
+
+
 def do_train(lora_name: str, always_override: bool, save_steps: int, micro_batch_size: int, batch_size: int, epochs: int, learning_rate: str, lr_scheduler_type: str, lora_rank: int, lora_alpha: int, lora_dropout: float, cutoff_len: int, dataset: str, eval_dataset: str, format: str, eval_steps: int, raw_text_file: str, overlap_len: int, newline_favor_len: int, higher_rank_limit: bool, warmup_steps: int, optimizer: str, hard_cut_string: str, train_only_after: str, stop_at_loss: float):
 
     if shared.args.monkey_patch:
@@ -394,6 +427,10 @@ def do_train(lora_name: str, always_override: bool, save_steps: int, micro_batch
         task_type="CAUSAL_LM"
     )
 
+    # == Backup the existing adapter ==
+    if not always_override:
+        backup_adapter(lora_file_path)
+
     try:
         logger.info("Creating LoRA model...")
         lora_model = get_peft_model(shared.model, config)