# Backup and Restoration Planning

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-and-restoration-planning/348053>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** backups\
**Created:** [January 20, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-and-restoration-planning/348053 "2025-01-20T16:26:24Z")\
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I want to ensure a good backup strategy as my site goes live. These are the following steps I have put in place. What am I missing?

### Database Backups

- Discourse takes one daily database backup.
- An additional cron database backup is performed daily. (+12 hours from UI-based backup)
- Backups are stored in an S3 bucket (different data center)

### Core Files

The following are backed up twice a day to an S3 bucket (different data center)

- discourse/containers/app.yml
- discourse/shared/standalone/uploads/
- discourse/shared/standalone/backups/
- discourse/shared/standalone/ssl/
- discourse/shared/standalone/letsencrypt/

File backups occur twice a day, 30 minutes after database backups.

### S3:Uploads

- Daily backup of Uploads is stored in an S3 bucket in a different data center.

### Server Backups

- Weekly backups of the entire server - 4 weekly backups kept
- Annually store one weekly backup as a master backup in a remote location.

This should provide all the necessary data and settings to restore a server in place or on a new server.

Am I missing anything?

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