discourse backup creates a backup with uploads, regardless of the site setting that controls that. Is there a way to do a database only backup from the command line? It would be handy to be able do this for a number of reasons.

[image] How to backup database only (without uploads) from console? support Is there a way to backup database only from console? ./launcher enter app discourse backup fails while trying to include uploads: ... Unpausing sidekiq... Finalizing backup... Creating archive: …

Command line database only backup

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md-misko May 29, 2020, 2:02pm 2

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Command line database only backup

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