Can you get the token needed to download backups via the API?

[Lilly (Lillian Louis)]

Hi @paperdigits welcome back

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Download a backup with `wget`

For a seasoned sysadmin, the favored way of moving large files is a tool like rsync or scp, but sometimes, you don’t have ssh access to the host where you need to retrieve a large backup file. Because backup files contain sensitive information, Discourse’s has security features that make it very difficult for an unauthorized person to retrieve a backup. You must get a download link via email and use that link logged in as the user who requested it. If you want to download the data with a web br…