# 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: ![MarcP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marcp/32/160184_2.png) [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse/14855/98 "2019-11-16T00:43:05Z")

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I may have missed this, but how to I make sure a bucket for backups is private the proper way? [Set up file and image uploads to S3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229) doesn’t seem to be described here.

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