diff --git a/private_gpt/settings/settings.py b/private_gpt/settings/settings.py
index 785f7b40f4..4d6ddac6ed 100644
--- a/private_gpt/settings/settings.py
+++ b/private_gpt/settings/settings.py
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ class LocalSettings(BaseModel):
     llm_hf_repo_id: str
     llm_hf_model_file: str
     embedding_hf_model_name: str
+    llm_hf_resume_download: bool
 
 
 class SagemakerSettings(BaseModel):
diff --git a/scripts/setup b/scripts/setup
index 377bbe0b3d..534e3fae9b 100755
--- a/scripts/setup
+++ b/scripts/setup
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ hf_hub_download(
     filename=settings().local.llm_hf_model_file,
     cache_dir=models_cache_path,
     local_dir=models_path,
+    resume_download=settings().local.llm_hf_resume_download,
 )
 
 print("LLM model downloaded!")
diff --git a/settings.yaml b/settings.yaml
index f686fdb54a..f88c9c535a 100644
--- a/settings.yaml
+++ b/settings.yaml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ local:
   llm_hf_repo_id: TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1-GGUF
   llm_hf_model_file: mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1.Q4_K_M.gguf
   embedding_hf_model_name: BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
+  llm_hf_resume_download: True
 
 sagemaker:
   llm_endpoint_name: huggingface-pytorch-tgi-inference-2023-09-25-19-53-32-140