Today we have updated Discourse to latest commit, and S3 backup system stopped working When accessing to /admin/backups, an error failed message is raised, and the JSON outputs this: The bucket you are attempting to access must be addressed using the specified endpoint. Please send all future requests to this endpoint Just before updating, it was working correctly Now we can’t either make new backups or view current ones We also use media uploads to S3, which is working properly at this moment The media bucket is “kodular-community”, and it’s hosted in Dublin However, the backups bucket is called “kodular-community-backups” and it’s hosted in Oregon Maybe this issue could be releated in some way to the fact that it’s trying to fetch the “kodular-community-backups” from Dublin endpoint, as it’s the region it’s specified in Admin (?) But I don’t know why it was working before and suddenly after updating it stopped working

I don’t think using different regions for backups and uploads is a supported configuration. If it ever worked it was a bug.

But how was that a bug? What was the effect of it? Everything was working properly before :confused:

The bug was that the s3_region setting was completely ignored. That prevented Discourse from creating a new bucket and I think other things like uploading/downloading backups from the browser should have failed as well when the bucket’s region differed from the s3_region setting.

It doesn’t make any sense for them to be geographically separate.

An option for the backup bucket to be in a different region would actually be a good idea. How hard would it be to add @gerhard? Default to the same as assets, but override if set. If your site is hosted in us-east-1[1], and that region has downtime, you can still pull a backup from another region and stand up the site elsewhere. Don’t host your site there. It’s the worst region ever. ↩︎

Backups to two different S3 regions no longer work

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) February 7, 2019, 8:01am 3

Yes, it was a bug that I fixed two days ago. Both buckets must be in the same region.

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Backups to two different S3 regions no longer work

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