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?

Yes, that is new behavior added to increase the security of the backups. I’m looking for the relevant topic now… Edit: Here you go: [image] Security breach in Discourse forum with SSO sso Email confirmation of backup downloads is now in, thanks to @blake . You can’t downl…

So. I have four Discourse forums. I like to download my backups daily, for each. In each case, I must navigate to the “backups” page, click on the download link, switch over to my e-mail program, wait for the message to arrive, and click on the link that’s provided? Every day? I understand the need…

Thanks, @eviltrout , I may look into that. I’ve usually stayed away from Amazon’s services, and so had forgotten that this was a baked-in option. (Logging in hasn’t been an issue, as I’m a moderator on each of the forums anyway, and have browser tabs for them pinned open — so downloading the automat…

We are also going to be adding more cloud providers for automatic backups in the future via the Rails Girls Summer of Code project, if Amazon isn’t your thing. The best kinds of backups are the ones you don’t have to do anything about :slight_smile:

[image] eviltrout: We are also going to be adding more cloud providers for automatic backups in the future via the Rails Girls Summer of Code project, if Amazon isn’t your thing. Yeah, and Dropbox Backups already works.

Is there a way to disable this feature? I used to download backups automatically to a server in my control by inspecting /admin/backups.json using an admin API token (of an account which doesn’t have an email address in the first place). I’d be more interested in being able to set an encryption key…

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…

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eviltrout (Robin Ward) March 29, 2017, 3:46pm 4

Have you considered having your uploads automatically backup to S3? If you want to take backups every day that’s even simpler than logging in to download them.

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