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…

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: [image] Configure automatic backups for Disc…

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.

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…

How to take backup of Discourse hourly in a day

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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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