diff --git a/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/PlayerVaults.java b/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/PlayerVaults.java
index 3f8c7de..7a338f0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/PlayerVaults.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/PlayerVaults.java
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ public class PlayerVaults extends JavaPlugin {
     private boolean saveQueued;
     private String name = "";
     private File configFile;
+    private boolean backupsEnabled;
     private File backupsFolder = null;
     private File vaultData;
 
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ public class PlayerVaults extends JavaPlugin {
         new UUIDVaultManager();
         getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(new Listeners(this), this);
         loadConfig();
+        this.backupsEnabled = this.getConfig().getBoolean("backups.enabled", true);
         loadSigns();
         checkUpdate();
         getCommand("pv").setExecutor(new VaultCommand());
@@ -214,6 +216,7 @@ public class PlayerVaults extends JavaPlugin {
         int ecoDelete = getConfig().getInt("economy.refund-on-delete", 50);
         boolean dropEnabled = getConfig().getBoolean("drop-on-death.enabled", false);
         int dropInvs = getConfig().getInt("drop-on-death.inventories", 50);
+        boolean backupsEnabled = getConfig().getBoolean("backups.enabled", true);
         configFile.delete();
         YamlConfiguration conf = YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(getResource("config.yml"));
         setInConfig("check-update", checkUpdate, conf);
@@ -223,6 +226,7 @@ public class PlayerVaults extends JavaPlugin {
         setInConfig("economy.refund-on-delete", ecoDelete, conf);
         setInConfig("drop-on-death.enabled", dropEnabled, conf);
         setInConfig("drop-on-death.inventories", dropInvs, conf);
+        setInConfig("backups.enabled", backupsEnabled, conf);
         try {
             conf.save(configFile);
         } catch (IOException e) {
@@ -338,6 +342,10 @@ public class PlayerVaults extends JavaPlugin {
         return this.vaultData;
     }
 
+    public boolean isBackupsEnabled() {
+        return this.backupsEnabled;
+    }
+
     public File getBackupsFolder() {
         // having this in #onEnable() creates the 'uuidvaults' directory, preventing the conversion from running
         if (this.backupsFolder == null) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/UUIDVaultManager.java b/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/UUIDVaultManager.java
index 322a681..3c25c95 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/UUIDVaultManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/UUIDVaultManager.java
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ public class UUIDVaultManager {
      */
     public void saveFile(UUID holder, YamlConfiguration yaml) throws IOException {
         File file = new File(directory, holder.toString() + ".yml");
-        if (file.exists()) {
+        if (file.exists() && PlayerVaults.getInstance().isBackupsEnabled()) {
             file.renameTo(new File(PlayerVaults.getInstance().getBackupsFolder(), holder.toString() + ".yml"));
         }
         yaml.save(file);
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/VaultManager.java b/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/VaultManager.java
index e832728..912a9d4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/VaultManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/drtshock/playervaults/vaultmanagement/VaultManager.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 /**
  * A class for managing actual IO to the files, loading inventories, and saving them.
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class VaultManager {
 
     public PlayerVaults plugin;
@@ -260,9 +261,9 @@ public class VaultManager {
     @Deprecated
     public void saveFile(String holder, YamlConfiguration yaml) throws IOException {
         File file = new File(directory + File.separator + holder.toLowerCase() + ".yml");
-        if (file.exists()) {
+        if (file.exists() && PlayerVaults.getInstance().isBackupsEnabled()) {
             file.renameTo(new File(PlayerVaults.getInstance().getBackupsFolder(), holder.toLowerCase() + ".yml"));
         }
         yaml.save(file);
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/main/resources/config.yml b/src/main/resources/config.yml
index 4786702..4cf5e91 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/config.yml
+++ b/src/main/resources/config.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# PlayerVaults by drsthock and gomeow!
+# PlayerVaults by https://github.com/drtshock/PlayerVaults/graphs/contributors
 # http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/playervaults/
 # Made with love :3
 
@@ -29,4 +29,8 @@ cleanup:
 
   # If a file hasn't been edited for this long, we'll clean it up.
   # Time is in days.
-  lastEdit: 30
\ No newline at end of file
+  lastEdit: 30
+
+backups:
+  # If you don't want any backups created change this to false.
+  enabled: true