# Discourse Automated Weekly Backup and Update Script (Avoiding S3 Upload Issues)

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**Category:** Administrators\
**Tags:** s3\
**Created:** [July 10, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automated-weekly-backup-and-update-script-avoiding-s3-upload-issues/373804 "2025-07-10T22:34:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-automated-weekly-backup-and-update-script-avoiding-s3-upload-issues/373804/4 "2025-07-11T15:12:27Z")

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I’m pretty sure that if you make a database-only backup it won’t try to do the S3 stuff that can fail for various reasons.

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