# I can not save the checkpoints in GCS
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**Author:**  [@jessicalopez](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fjessicalopez)%5C
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fi-can-not-save-the-checkpoints-in-gcs%2F17006%2F1 "2022-04-20T14:34:31Z")
Hello,
I am using Seq2SeqTrainingArguments to finetune my model:
```auto
training_args = Seq2SeqTrainingArguments(output_dir='gs://my_bucket/models/')
```
It is supposed to save the checkpoints in GCS (Google Cloud Storage). However, it is saving the checkpoints in my local (I am using Google Colab).
I am doing the authentication as it follows:
```auto
from google.colab import auth
auth.authenticate_user()
project_id = "my_project_id"
!gcloud config set project {project_id}
```
In fact, I can see my files if I type:
```auto
!gsutil ls gs://my_bucket/
```
But it I can not save my checkpoints.
Do you have any idea how can I fix it?
Thank you in advance.
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**Author:**  [@Felipehonorato](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FFelipehonorato)%5C
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fi-can-not-save-the-checkpoints-in-gcs%2F17006%2F2 "2022-04-20T17:15:58Z")
Hi Jessica! I don’t really know how to solve that but I found a workaround.
You can create a custom callback to run at each epoch end (Therefore you will have all checkpoints) and upload the model checkpoint using this:
> **[Upload objects | Cloud Storage | Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/uploading-objects#storage-upload-object-python)**
>
> Describes options for uploading objects to a Cloud Storage bucket. An object consists of the data you want to store along with any associated metadata. You can upload objects using the supplied code and API samples.
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**Author:**  [@Jyotiyadav](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJyotiyadav)%5C
**Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fi-can-not-save-the-checkpoints-in-gcs%2F17006%2F3 "2024-01-19T15:26:50Z")
Hi @jessicalopez ,
Were you able to find a solution for this? How to save the checkpoints in GCS?