I’m a bit of a “control freak” when it comes to not losing any data. Seeing just daily backups always makes me feel like something can happen to a server and suddenly a full day of data, that can be extremely important, is gone. Without being too technical, because I’m not an expert, wouldn’t a sys…

A good VPS on a good platform is highly unlikely to have any problems and especially not between upgrades. In nearly 8 years of running one of my forums I’ve not had a single loss of data. the daily batch is designed as a trade off for most self hosters. it’s a simple-ish system, regime and doesn…

Backups and replication are two different things. Backups provide a snapshot of data at a given point. They provide a restore point. Replication is distributing every action to a different system so you have it at more than one location. Deletes are also replicated. If you really want to be fault…

I do database backup every 4. hour. That is the timeframe where I can live with possible vanished posts. To compare: my ecommerce does backups every 5th minutes. Once a day isn’t enough. Worth of max 24 hour of lost topics/posts is just too much.

It’s about how much content you might lose - on a quiet forum, backup every few days wouldn’t be a problem, on a very busy forum, even an hour might feel like a lot of loss. But you need to consider the improbability of failure: if you lost an hour of posts once a year, say, would that be very dist…

An even bigger loss than the posts might be all the new accounts that were created across a 24 hour period. Especially if Discourse is being used as the SSO provider for your other applications or other integrations. [image] alltiagocom: wouldn’t hourly backups be a bit safer? I don’t think…

[image] Richie: I don’t think this “0 for daily” answer is correct: Zero disables backups. This setting just determines the number of days between back-ups. @Jagster ‘s custom frequent DB back-ups sounds like the more appropriate solution you need if daily is not enough.

[image] merefield: Zero disables backups Yes, I was just highlighting how dangerously wrong AI gets its suggestions to people. Imagine if someone saw that and implemented it because it’s what they were told to do? :confused:

[image] Richie: I don’t think this “0 for daily” answer is correct: [Screenshot 2025-12-29 at 13.26.18] Looks like it got sourced from Staging/Test server ignored the environment variable - #2 by RGJ . Will update the post to make it clearer.

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Looks like it got sourced from Staging/Test server ignored the environment variable - #2 by RGJ. Will update the post to make it clearer.

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Is daily backups enough?

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