# Backups keep taking down my forum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-taking-down-my-forum/295698>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** backups\
**Created:** [February 17, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-taking-down-my-forum/295698 "2024-02-17T05:00:11Z")\
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**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 11, 2024, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-taking-down-my-forum/295698/9 "2024-03-11T10:26:43Z")

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How’s the memory usage on your droplet? The backup process should run clean-up routines and send a notification to admins when it fails. That won’t happen if the process gets terminated by the out-of-memory killer.

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