diff --git a/client/components/tables/BackupsTable.vue b/client/components/tables/BackupsTable.vue
index 3a757a86..ab8f39ed 100644
--- a/client/components/tables/BackupsTable.vue
+++ b/client/components/tables/BackupsTable.vue
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
       <div v-if="selectedBackup" class="px-4 w-full text-sm py-6 rounded-lg bg-bg shadow-lg border border-black-300">
         <p class="text-error text-lg font-semibold">Important Notice!</p>
         <p class="text-base py-1">Applying a backup will overwrite users, user progress, book details, settings, and covers stored in metadata with the backed up data.</p>
-        <p class="text-base py-1">Backups <strong>do not</strong> modify any files in your library folders, only data in the audiobookshelf created <span class="font-mono">/config</span> and <span class="font-mono">/metadata</span> directories. If you have enabled server settings to store cover art and metadata in your library folders then those are not backup up or overwritten.</p>
+        <p class="text-base py-1">Backups <strong>do not</strong> modify any files in your library folders, only data in the audiobookshelf created <span class="font-mono">/config</span> and <span class="font-mono">/metadata</span> directories. If you have enabled server settings to store cover art and metadata in your library folders then those are not backed up or overwritten.</p>
         <p class="text-base py-1">All clients using your server will be automatically refreshed.</p>
 
         <p class="text-lg text-center my-8">Are you sure you want to apply the backup created on {{ selectedBackup.datePretty }}?</p>
diff --git a/client/pages/config/backups.vue b/client/pages/config/backups.vue
index 5dbbf54a..9fda438f 100644
--- a/client/pages/config/backups.vue
+++ b/client/pages/config/backups.vue
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
         <h1 class="text-xl">Backups</h1>
       </div>
 
-      <p class="text-base mb-4 text-gray-300">Backups include users, user progress, book details, server settings and covers stored in <span class="font-mono text-gray-100">/metadata/items</span>. <br />Backups <strong>do not</strong> include any files stored in your library folders.</p>
+      <p class="text-base mb-4 text-gray-300">Backups include users, user progress, library item details, server settings, and images stored in <span class="font-mono text-gray-100">/metadata/items</span> & <span class="font-mono text-gray-100">/metadata/authors</span>. <br />Backups <strong>do not</strong> include any files stored in your library folders.</p>
 
       <div class="flex items-center py-2">
         <ui-toggle-switch v-model="enableBackups" small :disabled="updatingServerSettings" @input="updateBackupsSettings" />
diff --git a/server/managers/BackupManager.js b/server/managers/BackupManager.js
index e56aa95c..01f05b90 100644
--- a/server/managers/BackupManager.js
+++ b/server/managers/BackupManager.js
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class BackupManager {
   constructor(db, emitter) {
     this.BackupPath = Path.join(global.MetadataPath, 'backups')
     this.ItemsMetadataPath = Path.join(global.MetadataPath, 'items')
+    this.AuthorsMetadataPath = Path.join(global.MetadataPath, 'authors')
 
     this.db = db
     this.emitter = emitter
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ class BackupManager {
     await zip.extract('config/', global.ConfigPath)
     if (backup.backupMetadataCovers) {
       await zip.extract('metadata-items/', this.ItemsMetadataPath)
+      await zip.extract('metadata-authors/', this.AuthorsMetadataPath)
     }
     await this.db.reinit()
     this.emitter('backup_applied')
@@ -178,8 +180,6 @@ class BackupManager {
   async runBackup() {
     // Check if Metadata Path is inside Config Path (otherwise there will be an infinite loop as the archiver tries to zip itself)
     Logger.info(`[BackupManager] Running Backup`)
-    var metadataItemsPath = this.serverSettings.backupMetadataCovers ? this.ItemsMetadataPath : null
-
     var newBackup = new Backup()
 
     const newBackData = {
@@ -188,7 +188,10 @@ class BackupManager {
     }
     newBackup.setData(newBackData)
 
-    var zipResult = await this.zipBackup(metadataItemsPath, newBackup).then(() => true).catch((error) => {
+    var metadataAuthorsPath = this.AuthorsMetadataPath
+    if (!await fs.pathExists(metadataAuthorsPath)) metadataAuthorsPath = null
+
+    var zipResult = await this.zipBackup(metadataAuthorsPath, newBackup).then(() => true).catch((error) => {
       Logger.error(`[BackupManager] Backup Failed ${error}`)
       return false
     })
@@ -228,7 +231,7 @@ class BackupManager {
     }
   }
 
-  zipBackup(metadataItemsPath, backup) {
+  zipBackup(metadataAuthorsPath, backup) {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       // create a file to stream archive data to
       const output = fs.createWriteStream(backup.fullPath)
@@ -299,10 +302,16 @@ class BackupManager {
       archive.directory(this.db.AuthorsPath, 'config/authors')
       archive.directory(this.db.SeriesPath, 'config/series')
 
-      if (metadataItemsPath) {
-        Logger.debug(`[BackupManager] Backing up Metadata Items "${metadataItemsPath}"`)
-        archive.directory(metadataItemsPath, 'metadata-items')
+      if (this.serverSettings.backupMetadataCovers) {
+        Logger.debug(`[BackupManager] Backing up Metadata Items "${this.ItemsMetadataPath}"`)
+        archive.directory(this.ItemsMetadataPath, 'metadata-items')
+
+        if (metadataAuthorsPath) {
+          Logger.debug(`[BackupManager] Backing up Metadata Authors "${metadataAuthorsPath}"`)
+          archive.directory(metadataAuthorsPath, 'metadata-authors')
+        }
       }
+
       archive.append(backup.detailsString, { name: 'details' })
 
       archive.finalize()