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# Setting up a backup bot

Route notifications through a reserve bot when your main bot is rate-limited.

### **What Are Backup Bots?**

Backup Bots keep your tracking running if the main bot gets rate-limited by Telegram. When that happens, your messages are automatically sent to your Backup Bots instead.

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### **🌟 How to Set Up Backup Bots**

1. Send the command `/backup` in RayBot.
2. Follow the prompts to **add a few Backup Bots**.
3. Done — your alerts will switch to the Backup Bots automatically if the main bot is rate-limited.

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### **💡 Why Use Backup Bots?**

* **No missed transactions**: Alerts keep arriving even if your main bot hits Telegram's limits.
* **No manual switching**: Alerts transfer to your Backup Bots automatically.

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### **📢 What’s Coming Next?**

Right now, Backup Bots are available for **direct messages (DMs)**. Support for groups is planned.

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For questions or help setting it up, send us a message via RayBot.


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