Okay I think I got a little mixed up here.
I’m thinking the ideal thing to do would probably be to have all uploads local and save the backups (zips) to the S3. This way the backup is available on S3 should anything happen to the server but the backup in itself is self contained with no dependencies so it should be easy to restore it on a new server.
So if I understood correctly, I should follow these instructions:
If you want to stop using s3, then you can enter the rails console and set
SiteSetting.include_s3_uploads_in_backups=true
Then take a backup, make sure that you do not have s3 configured in your app.yml and restore the backup. I think that this will restore backups to local.
and then
- disable the
enable upload to S3option in Admin → Settings → Files - enable the backup to S3 option in the Admin → Settings → Backups page
Is that correct?
This is the part that confused me, why would I want to put the S3 configuration in the app.yml file?