To make backup management easier and more consistent with the rest of our infrastructure we’re using an external PostgreSQL instance. This server has automatic backups separately from Discourse’s own, and the server is a newer version than the pg_dump
binary version in the docker containers, so Discourse currently fails to dump the database, causing the Discourse backups to break.
Since we already have automatic DB backups we don’t need Discourse to take care of it, but we would still like to be able to have Discourse automatically back up just the uploaded data to S3 instead.