# Cloudflare R2: Navigating Setup and Handling Configuration Errors

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-r2-navigating-setup-and-handling-configuration-errors/305617
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** s3
**Created:** [April 21, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-r2-navigating-setup-and-handling-configuration-errors/305617 "2024-04-21T21:13:01Z")
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### Author: ![aosus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@aosus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aosus)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-r2-navigating-setup-and-handling-configuration-errors/305617/41 "2024-10-25T19:21:11Z")

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Did you test if discourse can download files from Cloudflare R2? for example to include S3 uploads in a complete backup of the instance.

> [@Enable hidden setting to include S3 uploads in the backups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-hidden-setting-to-include-s3-uploads-in-the-backups/276535):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to enable a hidden setting in Discourse to include Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) uploads in your backups. Discourse has the ability to store media uploads on Amazon S3 for scalability and reliability. However, these uploads are not included in backups by default. This guide covers enabling a hidden setting to include S3 uploads in backups, with options to configure it via the Rails console or the app.yml file. Using Rails Console To enable S3 uploads…

It doesn’t seem to work because Cloudflare is missing something in the R2 S3 Api, also migrate\_to\_s3 doesn’t work.

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