In the past when I clicked the Download button on the backups screen, the browser downloaded the file. Now the tooltip reads “Send email with download link” and it emails me with a link to download it. Is that new behavior that I just missed or is there an issue with my install?

There’s no way to disable this feature, and because we want to be very secure by default I can’t see us allowing a user to do that any time soon. You could build a plugin that allows you to access the backups directly. The encryption key is not a bad idea as a separate feature, but it wouldn’t mean…

Sorry for the late reply. Oh yeah, allowing a user to disable the feature kind of makes the feature meaningless I suppose, hadn’t thought of it that way. Then I’ll consider making a plugin .Thanks for the quick response and suggestion!

We had an issue here because it made it much harder to download a backup from a (third party) provider where we don’t have shell access, and upload it to one of our own servers. Especially when handling a large backup and both servers are in the USA (we’re in Europe) this process was costing us hour…

I think it a quite bad idea. Because the browser downloader usually stops at some time. The backup package is quite big usually, but if we only have one chance to download and then the link will pastdue, usually it will download half and stoped there. Can you support breakpoint resume download? If…

I have the same issue. I have to disable this feature for personal reasons.

I understand that you want to be very secure by default. But can we have non-default options? Or can we have an option to send the link to a new target email address? I strongly agree to set it to enable as a default option.

There are many features that can be set as disable or not default. Maybe they are not supposed to be meaningless.

Email link or not isn’t the main issue here. Now we must remember that downloading backup was a solution for real issue and that was, and is, too rarely done backups. I take backup of database of my webstore every 5 minutes. My CMS takes backup every hour. With Discourse the freshest fish I get is …

With the current email link method, when I was downloading backups in a region with a restricted network, I always got stuck at 30%, even if I used VPN for some time.

I will have a similar issue in the future if it is still email-link-only at that time.

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) 8월 24, 2022, 4:48오후 22

Discourse의 백업을 정기적으로 다운로드하려면 rClone를 cron 작업과 함께 설정할 수 있습니다.

자신의 컴퓨터에 FTP 서버를 설정하고 rClone을 구성하여 컴퓨터에 있는 백업을 복사할 수 있습니다. cron 작업에 설정한 시간에 컴퓨터와 FTP 서버가 실행 중인지 반드시 확인하세요.

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