# Pausing Pro-Projects

Pro-Projects at the moment cannot be paused. However, [You are allowed to have two free organizations](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/billing-on-supabase#free-plan) that can support one active project each and an unlimited amount of paused ones.

If a project is under 500MB, you can [transfer it to be under a free organization](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/project-transfer). Afterwards, you can initiate a pause.

Alternatively, you can download a [daily backup](https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/database/backups/scheduled) of only your database for archiving. You can also manually download a .SQL file of your database and storage buckets by following this [guide](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/migrating-within-supabase/backup-restore).

You can also download your storage buckets with the [Supabase CLI:](https://supabase.com/docs/guides/local-development/cli/getting-started?queryGroups=platform\&platform=npx)

```sql
npx supabase login

# link to your project
npx supabase link

npx supabase init

# will download files to current folder
npx supabase storage cp -r ss://bucket . --experimental
```