I’m running a very visual oriented community ( www.realtimevfx.com ) and have watched my disk space creep up over the past year (obviously). I’m about to do some cleanup (per this discussion “ https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-on-disk-space-cleaning-up-old-docker-containers/15792/83 ”), but I wanted to s…

Serve static resources via AWS is the best You can do as it will offload a significant amount of less important data from the server.

[image] itsbhanusharma: Serve static resources via AWS is the best Won’t the local copies of all uploaded images still reside on your server?

Rebuild Your container once the Images are offloaded to s3 bucket and then all those can be safely removed from your local server. system is supposed to automatically clean up the content once it is properly uploaded to the AWS cloud.

[image] itsbhanusharma: system is supposed to automatically clean up the content once it is properly uploaded to the AWS cloud. I see, didn’t know about it. What about making a backup of a Discourse instance, it won’t contain those images, will it?

it will contain necessary references to those images and when You restore such a backup, it will link them to Your instance’s AWS s3 configuration and look for resources in the relative directories afaik but maybe someone from the discourse team can provide better details about how backups are handl…

When images are stored on S3, they won’t be backed up by Discourse anymore. This would be pointless since most of the time, you’re using S3 because you don’t have enough space locally. If you want to backup your images, I’m sure there are plenty of tools available to do that by talking to S3 direct…

@zogstrip one Question though! what if that backup is restored when the site is moved to a new host? will that break all the images or will it be as simple as configuring with the same AWS details again to restore all the media?

Backup will contain all your site settings. So new restored instance also will have the same S3 configuration.

I have several question about images storage/processing I have two folders /var/discourse/shared/standalone/uploads/default/original — 9GB in my case ../3X ../2X ../1X /var/discourse/shared/standalone/uploads/default/optimized — 4GB in my case ../3X ../2X ../1X Is there way to keep only o…

[image] Dmitry_Krasnoperov: Is there way to keep only optimized images? Original images are shown when their optimised counterparts within topics/replies are clicked.

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I would like to see us make this available directly from the admin panel, should I queue it for next release or the release after next?

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