diff --git a/app/tasks/install.php b/app/tasks/install.php
index 7becef9d63..dde394c9e1 100644
--- a/app/tasks/install.php
+++ b/app/tasks/install.php
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ $cli
         $data = @file_get_contents($path.'/docker-compose.yml');
 
         if($data !== false) {
+            Console::info("found old docker-compose.yml file, creating backup docker-compose.yml.backup");
+            file_put_contents($path.'/docker-compose.yml.bak',$data);
             $compose = new Compose($data);
             $appwrite = $compose->getService('appwrite');
             $oldVersion = ($appwrite) ? $appwrite->getImageVersion() : null;
@@ -90,6 +92,8 @@ $cli
                 $data = @file_get_contents($path.'/.env');
 
                 if($data !== false) { // Fetch all env vars from previous .env file
+                    Console::info("found old .env file, creating .env.backup");
+                    file_put_contents($path.'/.env.bak',$data);
                     $env = new Env($data);
 
                     foreach ($env->list() as $key => $value) {