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 Ba…

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.

How would webmin trigger Discourse to perform a backup?

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.

That’s not supported using a simple admin setting. You will need to roll your own pg_dump and uploads script for that.

Thanks so much for the response. I will try with pg_dump as suggested.

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.

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…

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 s…

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rishabh 2018 年 8 月 24 日午後 5:02 2

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:

トピック		返信	表示
Multiple Daily Backups Support	15	1492	2022 年 1 月 13 日
Backup and Restoration Planning Support backups	7	160	2025 年 1 月 20 日
Configuring automatic backups Support	5	734	2023 年 4 月 18 日
Is daily backups enough? Support backups	8	161	2025 年 12 月 29 日
Multiple backup schedules Feature	15	1152	2022 年 4 月 13 日

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