# Backup frequency not understood **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501 **Category:** Support **Tags:** backups **Created:** [January 29, 2025, 5:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501 "2025-01-29T05:25:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 8 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Wurzelseppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi) #### Post date: [January 29, 2025, 5:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/1 "2025-01-29T05:25:33Z")
Hey guys, these are my settings for backup at the moment: ![The image displays settings for automatic backups, including options to set maximum backups and days to keep, as well as enabling backups and specifying a backup frequency, with a focus on the "Remove older backups" setting with a value of 14 days. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/a/f/7afff35cd5c82f893a2ea8586f3c17a7bc940cb2.png) Here you see that actual backups made (It´s a new board, thus the small backups 🙂 ) ![The image displays a table of file names, sizes, and download buttons, all shown in a dark interface format. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/c/7/bc756cf196dcecfe756d06d360b873ba79403400.png) I configured, as you can see, backup frequency “1”, but the backups are made every second day. Is it just, that I´m too dumb to understand it, or is it something else ? I want daily backups! :- 😂 Thanks and Cheers, Julian ---
### Author: ![Arkshine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/arkshine/32/298682_2.png) [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine) #### Post date: [January 29, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/2 "2025-01-29T17:07:53Z")
Hey, what is your `backup_time_of_day` value? Also is it local or S3 storage? ---
### Author: ![Wurzelseppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi) #### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/3 "2025-01-30T08:29:45Z")
it´s 3:30 and it´s local because of this > [@AWS S3 upload - unable to sign request without credentials set](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aws-s3-upload-unable-to-sign-request-without-credentials-set/342266/4): > > Tried now, to set up IAM User with credentials and give it s3:\* permissions, and now the upload works, but discourse can´t display it afterwards: As I´m working in a company, and there are SCP (Service control policies) active for our accounts, it seems that public access is generally blocked Thanks 🙂 ---
### Author: ![Arkshine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/arkshine/32/298682_2.png) [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine) #### Post date: [January 31, 2025, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/4 "2025-01-31T05:02:13Z")
I see, thanks! I was maybe thinking of some timing issue, but it doesn’t look this way. I will try to reproduce it. Let’s hope someone else has a better idea of what’s happening. ---
### Author: ![Wurzelseppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi) #### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/5 "2025-02-27T06:36:33Z")
It´s still the same here. Backup Frequenceny is at “1” But backups are occuring only every second day ☹ ---
### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard) #### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/6 "2025-03-03T21:23:12Z")
Could you enter your Docker container, start the rails console, … ```plaintext ./launcher enter app rails c ``` … run the following two lines of code … ```ruby BackupRestore::BackupStore.create.latest_file ``` ```ruby Time.now.utc ``` … and post the output, please? ---
### Author: ![Wurzelseppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@Wurzelseppi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wurzelseppi) #### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/7 "2025-03-04T08:09:11Z")
Hey @gerhard, here you are 🙂 ```plaintext rails c [1] pry(main)> BackupRestore::BackupStore.create.latest_file => # [2] pry(main)> Time.now.utc => 2025-03-04 08:07:17.128857559 UTC ``` Last Backups: ![The image displays a list of five tar.gz files with download buttons next to them, each ranging in size from 38.3 MB to 41.5 MB. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/d/e/4de1fb7ff052a3fc72ce42f06b43d774afe94ab7.png) The setting is still: ![The image shows a settings window displaying a field labeled "Backup frequency" with the input "1" and an accompanying tooltip explaining the setting. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/4X/5/2/c/52c3522910f791f26083a4e97e37bec1336223f3_2_690x41.png) Cheers WS ---
### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard) #### Post date: [March 6, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-frequency-not-understood/349501/8 "2025-03-06T13:58:09Z")
Thanks, okay, I see the issues. There’s a daily background job that runs [at 00:00](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/3837657449cc56cf932fa069b6654e6d25edcc26/app/jobs/scheduled/schedule_backup.rb#L5) and enqueues a backup job for a later time. But [this condition](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/3837657449cc56cf932fa069b6654e6d25edcc26/app/jobs/scheduled/schedule_backup.rb#L15) most likely isn’t true for daily backups, so it’s skipped. And the fact that we are adding some [jitter](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/3837657449cc56cf932fa069b6654e6d25edcc26/app/jobs/scheduled/schedule_backup.rb#L21) to the actual start of the backup doesn’t help either. I consider this a bug that we should fix.