pprp
(pprp)
August 24, 2018, 4:35pm
1
Hi,
Could you please help on below:
How to take backup of Discourse hourly in a day. Is it possible to do it from “/admin/site_settings/category/backups” ? or should check PostgreSQL backup mechanism?
Can you confirm - what ever back ups created under “admin/backups” is only just Database Backup or entire Discourse backup ?
Thank you.
You can view all Backup related settings at Admin > Settings > Backups
and modify the backup frequency
setting to enable daily backups.
These backups will contain all your Discourse data, this thread will have some more pointers:
So you’d like to automatically back up all your Discourse data every day?
Go to the /admin settings, backup, and set backup_frequency to 1.
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Now backup will be taken every day.
If you’re self-hosted you can access them at /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default.
Store backups on local server or Amazon S3
WARNING
Storing backups and regular uploads in the same bucket and folder is no longer supported and will not work.
By default backups are stored on the loc…
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pprp
(pprp)
August 25, 2018, 1:32am
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Thank you so much for your response. I have already configured the automatic back up Discourse data every day.
But, I would like to take back up of Discourse multiple times in a day. Example: For every 2 hours or 6 hours in a day. How can this be achieved ?
Thank you.
I would use WEBMIN for something like that,
They have a BACKUP area that you can adjust times and dates and restore and backup sites.
Stephen
(Stephen)
August 25, 2018, 4:29am
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How would webmin trigger Discourse to perform a backup?
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pprp
(pprp)
August 27, 2018, 11:29am
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Can any one please let me know, if it possible to take back up of Discourse multiple times in a day. Example: For every 2 hours or 6 hours in a day.
Falco
(Falco)
August 27, 2018, 12:51pm
7
That’s not supported using a simple admin setting.
You will need to roll your own pg_dump and uploads script for that.
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pprp
(pprp)
August 28, 2018, 5:29am
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Thanks so much for the response. I will try with pg_dump as suggested.
pprp
(pprp)
September 10, 2018, 12:57pm
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Hi,
I have one question on Discourse back up:
What ever backups that we see at Admin > Settings > Backups
: is it included with file system backup also, or is it just database backup alone ?
Thank you.
merefield
(Robert)
September 10, 2018, 1:06pm
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It doesn’t include app.yml
I believe. You should keep a copy of that somewhere safe. Obviously this doesn’t change very much or often.
To recreate your server you generally only need:
app.yml
a back-up of the forum generated by the inbuilt functionality.
It should only take about 30 minutes to recreate the server with these two things available.
pprp
(pprp)
September 10, 2018, 1:22pm
11
Hi @merefield ,
Thank you so much for the response.
Ok, so once I recreate the new server with (backup) app.yml and the back-up ( Admin > Settings > Backups), then all the additional settings that were added to UI or any additional (admin) settings in old discourse server will be appearing in new server ? (I mean, the newly created server will be exactly like copy of old server with out any data loss) ?
merefield
(Robert)
September 10, 2018, 1:25pm
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You will need to repoint your DNS (A record) to your new IP too (if that has changed).
pprp
(pprp)
September 10, 2018, 1:28pm
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yeah, that point (DNS & IP) will be taken care. Thank you.
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