I’m using Contabo Object Storage for backups and I need to leave “s3_backup_bucket” empty for it to work otherwise it adds the name at the beginnig of the bucket’s url and it doesn’t work. Now, if I run the backups manually it works fine and complete the task but the automatic daily backups don’t w…

[image] Alberto: I need to leave “s3_backup_bucket” empty [image] Alberto: The server is configured to upload backups to S3, You can’t upload backups to s3 if you don’t define s3_backup_bucket. [image] Alberto: It used to work fine 'till last week update… I can’t imagine how th…

Why it works then when I run it manually? Contabo’s bucket url is https://usc1.contabostorage.com/bucketname If I add the name to discourse settings it’ll try to connect to https://bucketname.usc1.contabostorage.com/bucketname or https://bucketname.usc1.contabostorage.com/ and this doesn’t work w…

The same thing happened to me with scaleway, it worked for me until approximately May 16, then it didn’t work. Additionally, believe me, I did more than 50 tests (changing all the values), and the only way that worked was if I left “s3 backup bucket” blank, and what the system did was create a fold…

[image] Master: and the only way that worked was if I left “s3 backup bucket” blank, That sounds like a bug then. [image] Master: what the system did was create a folder called “default”, That’s expected.

I’ve put a space instead of leaving it empty and this night’s backup has run. Still having the advice in dashboard tho. Another thing, it doesn’t delete the local files after the upload completes.

You should set bucket to Contabo region, and set S3 endpoint without region like this bucket: usc1 S3 endpoint: https://contabostorage.com/bucketname it’s work fine.

Backups not running on Contabo Object Storage

Support Self-hosting

tumbano (Alberto) May 22, 2024, 3:55pm 7

Moved back to previous provider (idrive) and everything is back to normality.

Topic		Replies	Views
Hot off the presses, automated backup support! Feature	23	8023	October 3, 2014
S3 (not AWS) backups stopped working, presumably since an update Support s3	14	277	October 6, 2025
Tips on Google Cloud S3 Sysadmins google-cloud , reference	4	1094	August 25, 2022
Unable to backup or navigate to backups Bug s3	23	358	November 18, 2024
No access to site after set S3 credentials Support	11	867	April 4, 2020

Backups not running on Contabo Object Storage

Related topics