# Disk space and backup failure notifications

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disk-space-and-backup-failure-notifications/24162
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** notifications, backups
**Created:** [19 בינואר,‏ 2015,‏ 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disk-space-and-backup-failure-notifications/24162 "2015-01-19T00:05:44Z")
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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [24 במאי,‏ 2016,‏ 9:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disk-space-and-backup-failure-notifications/24162/6 "2016-05-24T21:43:38Z")

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Noted backups weren’t running again because the nightly uploads to Amazon S3 didn’t appear on the Bandwidth graph:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/5/5587b65800109a7ad822149da5134dc2a3076ad8.png)

So in the case of this Discourse / Digital Ocean instance, **confirmed failure notifications didn’t occur and backups were failing due to space issues.**

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