# Configure automatic backups for Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855
**Category:** Self-Hosting
**Tags:** backups, how-to
**Created:** [April 18, 2014, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855 "2014-04-18T06:21:44Z")
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### Author:  [@th0rgall](https://meta.discourse.org/u/th0rgall)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855/139 "2024-01-25T12:22:15Z")
I had the exact same question, and could not find an explicit answer here or in [Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-an-s3-compatible-object-storage-provider-for-uploads/148916/1).
But, I’ve set up Scaleway S3 Object Storage _for backups only_ with these environment variables, and it seems to work. I just made a manual backup to the bucket this way using the Admin dashboard.
```bash
# Leaving the below parameters commented out
# because they configure S3 for uploads/CDN distribution, which we don't want.
# DISCOURSE_USE_S3: true
# DISCOURSE_S3_CDN_URL:
# DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET:
DISCOURSE_S3_REGION: nl-ams
DISCOURSE_S3_ENDPOINT: https://s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud
DISCOURSE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID:
DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
DISCOURSE_S3_BACKUP_BUCKET:
DISCOURSE_BACKUP_LOCATION: s3
```
Static assets are still served from my VPS, as expected & desired, and I’m not seeing any errors. I’m not sure if the scheduled backups will work, but if the manual backup worked, they should too.
~~I’ll add a note to the wiki above that these parameters can be left out if you only want to use S3 for backups, and _not_ for file or image uploads.~~
~~Update: it’s not a wiki.~~
Update 2: it was made a wiki at my request, thanks!
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