I still think it is too complicated to use non-Amazon storage. Someone should make a better solution for this. I have to automate the drops on the server and then script it to other services - is something like that correct?
So the steps are:
Automatic backups from the server to: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default
Then, I have to get some kind of API or token access to the other third party service.
Then script it through sftp or scp or any other secure protocol.
Why not just include an option to send to other storage services on this page?
I followed how the Tagger plugin incorporation did not happen right, so when @codinghorror simply states to add it as a pull request it seems like he is pushing it aside, when, for example, the Tagger plugin was also really import and is still quite cumbersome to get working.
Something like automatic backups should be given a much higher priority.
I also feel features should be speced right here in this Discourse forum, not in GitHub, which, after all, is a separate website in reality.
If we map out the process, say in LucidChart, and just post a screenshot of it here, I think any software architect would understand how to build it.
@sam I have been a technical writer for many years, and the first thing to get clear is the language of the project, which is a lesson I learnt especially here in Montreal as we work in French and English and produce a lot of software.
It is very simplistic to think everyone wants to rely on Amazon storage when there are a lot of other very good providers, both US based, and worldwide.
To be clear, I think multiple backup destinations is a good idea, we just have no bandwidth to work on it at the moment and none of our paying customers are specifically asking for it.