Hey guys, these are my settings for backup at the moment: <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/a/f/7afff35cd5c82f893a2ea8586f3c17a7bc940cb2.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/hy6CDcClOlKeCN65JFc85b5byue.png?dl=1" title="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)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[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 o…

Hey, what is your backup_time_of_day value? Also is it local or S3 storage?

it´s 3:30 and it´s local because of this [image] AWS S3 upload - unable to sign request without credentials set Support 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 a…

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.

It´s still the same here. Backup Frequenceny is at “1” But backups are occuring only every second day :frowning:

Could you enter your Docker container, start the rails console, … ./launcher enter app rails c … run the following two lines of code … BackupRestore::BackupStore.create.latest_file Time.now.utc … and post the output, please?

Hey @gerhard , here you are :slight_smile: rails c [1] pry(main)> BackupRestore::BackupStore.create.latest_file => #<BackupFile:0x00007ff6c5ed79e8 @filename="community-2025-03-04-033214-v20250220090521.tar.gz", @last_modified=2025-03-04 02:32:19.790859841 UTC, @size=43521649, @source=nil> [2] pry(m…

Thanks, okay, I see the issues. There’s a daily background job that runs at 00:00 and enqueues a backup job for a later time. But this condition most likely isn’t true for daily backups, so it’s skipped. And the fact that we are adding some jitter to the actual start of the backup doesn’t help eit…

Backup frequency not understood

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Configure automatic backups for Discourse

Self-Hosting

backups , how-to

44

303629

May 19, 2026

Hot off the presses, automated backup support!

Feature

21

8075

April 25, 2014

Backups are duplicating and not respecting number to keep on disk

Self-hosting

67

2677

February 14, 2019

On-site backup frequency setting

Feature

backups

3

1329

August 7, 2015

Unable to backup or navigate to backups

Bug

s3

22

480

November 16, 2024

Backup frequency not understood

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