# Backup failing to upload to s3 where are logs?

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**Created:** [March 19, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failing-to-upload-to-s3-where-are-logs/183815 "2021-03-19T22:01:52Z")\
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I’ve got a site that’s pushing a 20GB backup to Wasabi S3. It works. Most of the time.

But sometimes it fails to upload to S3 and keeps the local `.tar.gz`. And then eventually the disk fills and I’m left with a full disk, the uncompressed `.tar` file (because there wasn’t enough space for the compressed version, and soon, a broken site because the disk is full.

Before I punt on Wasabi, I’d like to try to see if there are any clues.

I’ve looked in `production.log`, `production.errors` and the sidekiq and unicorn logs and don’t see “acku” anywhere either on the day that the backup failed or when it worked. Shouldn’t there be a log somewhere?

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