# Backups keep failing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-failing/247734>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** backups\
**Created:** [December 5, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-failing/247734 "2022-12-05T00:16:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-failing/247734/2 "2022-12-05T05:13:18Z")

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Are you running discourse as root? What is the disk mapping (in the app.yml)?

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