I noticed that the backups are gradually decreasing in size, and some uploads are starting to disappear. [image] For example in this post there should be a video, but it doesn’t play anymore and indeed is missing from the backups. Any idea what’s happening?

It’s still decreasing… does anyone have an idea what this could be? [image]

Are your files stored on the same server as Discourse? Do you have any custom setup? Did you review your uploads’ settings, and the staff actions to see if any upload-related setting was changed?

If this happened to me, I would take two of those backup files, list their respective contents, and compare the two lists. In fact I did that, found a small difference in size, and found I had 4 new jpeg image files, and a very slightly smaller dump.sql.gz. So I extracted and decompressed the two …

[Bild] William Di Luigi: For example in this post there should be a video, but it doesn’t play anymore and indeed is missing from the backups. I notice the HTML for this video shows a 404 and references an upload:// URL. It does seem likely that somehow your upload storage is being aggressive…

Start by disabling Settings - Files - clean up uploads ASAP. How large is your public/uploads/tombstone directory? Was your forum previously imported from another forum software?

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wil93 (William Di Luigi) 13. Dezember 2024 um 11:32 2

Es nimmt immer noch ab… Hat jemand eine Idee, was das sein könnte?

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