Hey, First time setting up Discourse here! I’m trying to backup my development instance of Discourse as I am ready to host it online, but when going in Admin>Backups>Backup, it says Backup Failed. Here’s my log: [2018-07-12 20:48:43] 'cryptoguard' has started the backup! [2018-07-12 20:48:4 - Paste…

What worked for me on a mac was installing gnu-tar with Homebrew and then adding it to my PATH in my .bash_profile.

Cannot Backup my Development Instance (Fails)

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 14, 2018, 5:04am 9

Oh! Then it’s not so much to ask after all!

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