# Prevent creation of multiple checkpoints
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**Author:**  [@SuperBowser](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FSuperBowser)%5C
**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fprevent-creation-of-multiple-checkpoints%2F168144%2F1 "2025-09-05T20:15:08Z")
In my training arguments I selected to save every 200 steps, but my model is fairly large (relative to my disk size). I would like to save every 200 steps, but every save should just overwrite previous save instead of creating new save point. Is this possible?
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**Author:**  [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C
**Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 12:19am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fprevent-creation-of-multiple-checkpoints%2F168144%2F2 "2025-09-06T00:19:59Z")
Strictly speaking, it’s not overwriting, but I think[`save_total_limit` or `save_only_model`](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/main_classes/trainer#transformers.TrainingArguments.save_total_limit) are closer to the intended purpose.
```py
from transformers import TrainingArguments
args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="out",
save_strategy="steps",
save_steps=200,
save_total_limit=1, # deletes older checkpoints
save_only_model=True, # 4.37+; skips optimizer/scheduler to shrink size
)
```
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**Author:**  [@system](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsystem)%5C
**Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 1:48am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fprevent-creation-of-multiple-checkpoints%2F168144%2F3 "2025-09-08T01:48:01Z")
Closed on September 8, 2025, 1:48am UTC
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