I’m moving an existing Discourse instance from its current home to an AWS EC2 VM. The site sits behind Amazon load balancers. I’ve already successfully tweaked app.yml with the appropriate set_real_ip_from directives so NGINX knows about the load balancer IPs. I know this is working because I can…

By “use scp” do you mean transfer the file directly to the VM and then place it in a certain folder where Discourse can find it? I haven’t tried this, but it looks like that certain folder would be /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default? And would using S3 really bypass the Amazon load b…

[image] xyzzy: it looks like that certain folder would be /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default? If that folder exists, then that’s probably the place. [image] xyzzy: And would using S3 really bypass the Amazon load balancers? It would.

Default restore guide calls for creating the default folder so even if it doesn’t exist, it can be created manually. Ref: Restore a backup from the command line

Rate limiter issues when uploading a backup file / can't disable rate limiter

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 30, 2022, 7:42pm 2

If you’re trying to upload a backup then use scp or put it on S3.

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