备份解决方案用于免费托管提供商

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Hey all, long time no see :slight_smile: Used to be quite active here a few years ago.

Anyway, I’m the admin of a relatively small forum. Our backups clock in at under 1GB, and will likely stay that way for the next few years.

I want to set up backups with a cloud provider that’s not tied to my identity, so that I can share login details with other forum owners. This excludes Amazon S3, which is our current solution, tied to my Amazon account. Google Drive would also be a little problematic (would have to create a special account, which requires phone number validation nowadays). Sharing a folder might be another solution, but that would chew up my Google Drive quota.

So is there a free cloud provider for backups that Discourse supports? I’ve spent the last ~15 minutes searching through threads, and it appears most plugins but S3 are deprecated or broken :frowning: Happy to be wrong and pointed to a working solution.

Also, any ongoing work on building this into Discourse? Is it a lot more complicated than it seems to use Dropbox’s API and upload the latest backup file?

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Why aren’t you looking at any S3 compatible service? There are many now…

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Are they admins on your forum? You don’t need to share your S3 login details if that’s the case. They can download backups in the Admin → Backups. Discourse will generate a secure link to download directly from S3.

It should be a lot simpler to create plugins for different storage providers than it was before the rewrite of the backup storage backend. I guess there isn’t a high demand for anything else than S3, so nobody created a plugin yet.

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You could run a Dropbox container that synced to Dropbox, or go old school and old school and rsync the files to some other location.

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The idea is to have access to the backups off-site in case our hosting blows up. If Discourse could keep pushing the links to the latest backups somewhere (e.g. into a Google Sheet), that would be interesting.

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I use Rclone with a cron job to move my backups to a non-S3 destination. Might be an option for you?

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I use rsync to my machine every few days, that’s the best option for me for now while keeping the costs really down. I keep 3-5 backups online with Discourse and up to 15 locally (sometimes I forget to delete the old ones).

A totally free option is kinda difficult. You could have a script that runs in the Discourse server and copies the file from there to any other place (Google Drive, Dropbox) with their API and a Cronjob.

Other option is to use S3 or S3-alikes as DigitalOcean’s Spaces (5$/250GB)

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确实，按照 这份指南设置 rclone 非常简单，适用于我们团队共享访问的 Gmail/Google Drive 账户。15GB 的存储空间绰绰有余。

使用 sync rclone 命令意味着只有当前的备份会存储在 Google Drive 上。这实际上比默认/内置的 AWS 插件方便得多，因为后者不会删除旧备份和日志文件，我需要时不时登录 AWS 手动删除它们。

请注意，在执行 rclone sync 之前，还需要运行 rclone cleanup 来清理回收站。否则 Google Drive 可能会空间不足，因为回收站中的文件仍会计入配额。

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顺便一提，有一个 s3 disable cleanup 站点设置：禁用在本地删除备份时从 S3 中移除备份的操作。