# Resuming Training in the Cloud, What Checkpoints are needed?

**URL:** </static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fresuming-training-in-the-cloud-what-checkpoints-are-needed%2F6255%3E%5C
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [May 19, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fresuming-training-in-the-cloud-what-checkpoints-are-needed%2F6255 "2021-05-19T14:29:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sociallyakward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@sociallyakward](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsociallyakward)%5C
**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fresuming-training-in-the-cloud-what-checkpoints-are-needed%2F6255%2F1 "2021-05-19T14:29:09Z")

</div>

Hi Guys  
I am currently training different models on Google Colab Pro and I am having some memory issues. Is there a way to find out which checkpoints can be deleted? Im using ` --save_total_limit="3" ` and i try to backup the Checkpoint Folder to Gdrive every hour. While doing this and using `save_total_limit` the Files on my Notebook are getting deleted (as they should) but not on my Gdrive (obviously). Is there any way to find out which Checkpoints i can manually remove on my Gdrive? Or do i have to check the Logs  
E.g. looking for

```auto
Deleting older checkpoint [/share/datasets/output_run/checkpoint-9000] due to args.save_total_limit

```

I had a lot of runs crash in the beggining at weird points and i there fore prop. back up to much, but thats the way i am xD

While the Notebook is still aactiv i can just Check the File Explorer:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/original/2X/c/caa130cb68e6c9f539f4558d19b0c0db5131e348.png)  
and delete every Checkpoint on Gdrive thats diffrent from those once. But how do i clean Checkpoints on Gdrive if the Notebook Crashed?

Ty