Disaster management for standalone discourse instance

hosting
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Hi, I can not use Digital Ocean as none of there payment gateway is not working for my country and its not easy to get credit card in my country. So I installed discourse on AWS EC2 using docker image and AWS SES for smtp (as it is lot cheaper than all the recommended services).
For failure recovery, I tried to use AWS RDS postgres and modified app.yml accordingly but it throws

rake db:migrate failed

error. I tried but it doesn’t seem to work. So I have only one option of putting everything in single instance (which works BTW) but what if this instance goes down. How to mange this problem?

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We don’t see many “disasters” on standalone instances in practice. If you have daily backups configured, and shipped to S3, you can easily set up a new Discourse instance in (way) less than 24 hours anywhere in the cloud and restore your daily backup there.

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How to configure discourse for daily backup to s3?

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Read the relevant #howto topic; try searching.

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I am sorry :grimacing: