The Amazon S3 backup is really awesome but not budget friendly. I am a perfect example of Noob and I want to save money. Is there any way to implement Dropbox Backup for Discourse or Google Drive Backup ? Any Plugin or through SSH?

Yes, you can copy the backup files via ssh/rsync. /var/discourse/shared/standalone backups Also backblaze has a cheaper S3 offering.

@AveyBD I’ve just completed a guide for Dropbox, hope it will be helpful for you: [image] Upload backups to Dropbox with crontab and dropboxd Self-Hosting Dropbox has an advantage - it syncs a new backup as soon as it appears in the system. The deal is to put new backup to…

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Ivan_Rapekas January 22, 2021, 9:01pm 3

@AveyBD I’ve just completed a guide for Dropbox, hope it will be helpful for you:

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