'
[2015-12-19 01:25:13] Notifying 'daath' of the end of the backup...
[2015-12-19 01:25:14] Removing old backups...
[2015-12-19 01:25:14] Cleaning stuff up...
[2015-12-19 01:25:14] Removing '.tar' leftovers...
[2015-12-19 01:25:14] Removing tmp '/var/www/discourse/tmp/backups/default/2015-12-19-012022' directory...
[2015-12-19 01:25:14] Unpausing sidekiq...
[2015-12-19 01:25:14] Marking backup as finished...
[2015-12-19 01:25:14] Finished!
```
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [12월 19, 2015, 3:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/2 "2015-12-19T03:05:01Z")
Welcome to the club!
A question which is pending .. is, or was, your host low on disk space at some point?
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-daily-backups-do-not-work/36809/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-daily-backups-do-not-work/36809/)
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-issue-undefined-method-every-for-jobs-createbackup-class/36818/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-issue-undefined-method-every-for-jobs-createbackup-class/36818/)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [12월 19, 2015, 3:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/3 "2015-12-19T03:24:43Z")
this looks like a different error though …
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [12월 19, 2015, 3:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/4 "2015-12-19T03:37:14Z")
> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
>
> A question which is pending .. is, or was, your host low on disk space at some point?
Yes, it was low at some point… Deleted some backups and cleaned up a bit - can’t remember if it ran OK after that?!.. Might not have actually…
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [12월 19, 2015, 3:40오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/5 "2015-12-19T03:40:21Z")
I just noticed it says
> [@daath](#):
>
> [2015-12-19 01:25:13] EXCEPTION: No such file or directory - /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/e-liquid-recipes-forum-2015-12-19-012022.tar.gz
The path seems wrong. Shouldn’t it be
> /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default
?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [12월 19, 2015, 3:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/6 "2015-12-19T03:57:46Z")
Yes, there’s no clear point what’s going on here.. the instance [I mention here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-issue-undefined-method-every-for-jobs-createbackup-class/36818/4) has never been low on space, and the errors in `/logs` don’t look like any other samples here.
Also, two other discourse instances I manage have no problems.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [12월 20, 2015, 4:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/7 "2015-12-20T16:44:13Z")
When you enter the running container, can you cd into `/var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/`?
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [12월 20, 2015, 5:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/8 "2015-12-20T17:06:28Z")
Ah, yes I can do that:
> /var/discourse$ sudo ./launcher ssh app
> lastlog\_openseek: Couldn’t stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory
> lastlog\_openseek: Couldn’t stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory
> Welcome to Discourse Docker
> Use: rails, rake or discourse to execute commands in production
> root@forum:~# cd /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/
> root@forum:/var/www/discourse/public/backups/default# ll
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 discourse www-data 4096 Dec 20 14:43 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 3 discourse www-data 4096 Jan 29 2015 ../
> root@forum:/var/www/discourse/public/backups/default#
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [12월 20, 2015, 5:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/9 "2015-12-20T17:17:16Z")
I have 9.7GB free space - I just monitored free space as I started a backup - could it be that it exhausted the free space and failed silently? I wan’t paying good enough attention, but at some point free space was at 370MB…
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [12월 20, 2015, 5:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/10 "2015-12-20T17:17:48Z")
Do you have `enable_s3_backups` enabled? If so, can you disable it and try backing up again?
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [12월 20, 2015, 7:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/11 "2015-12-20T19:24:36Z")
I just tried - Same result and output 😕
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2016, 8:50오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/12 "2016-04-20T08:50:52Z")
My backups are still failing ☹
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### Author:  [@Xack](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xack)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2016, 8:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/13 "2016-04-20T08:57:00Z")
Is your Discourse version the latest?
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2016, 10:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/14 "2016-04-20T10:16:01Z")
I always keep it updated…
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [4월 20, 2016, 2:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/15 "2016-04-20T14:06:57Z")
**NOTE** : If I make a backup _without files_, it completes and uploads to my S3 bucket.
Now this is fine, but I would like to keep a backup of uploaded images/files as well - I could live without that, if I could use S3 to keep files/uploads directly, but I don’t know how to set it up properly:
> [@S3 upload bucket, cdn url and bucket name in CNAME](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-upload-bucket-cdn-url-and-bucket-name-in-cname/42549):
>
> Continuing the discussion from [S3 Upload with Vanity Domains](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-upload-with-vanity-domains/7359/9): I have some questions! 1: I am running out of space on my droplet because of uploads, so I want to use S3 for my uploads. I might have missed something, but [in the S3 documentation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosting.html#VirtualHostingCustomURLs): Because Amazon S3 sees only the original host name www.example.com and is unaware of the CNAME mapping used to resolve the request, the CNAME and the bucket name must be the same. But in the discourse settings in “s3 upload bucket” it says “must be …
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### Author:  [@Xack](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xack)
#### Post date: [4월 21, 2016, 4:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/16 "2016-04-21T16:44:56Z")
Is the linked post relevant? Just wondering. 🙂
I don’t think Discourse sends the backup as a stream, by that I mean, as normal backup systems do, the backup is first created on the disk, uploaded to S3, and then deleted from the disk(?).
The fact it works when using “without files” is a strong indicator that it’s running out of space during the backup.
You should run `df -h` on the droplet, perhaps on a timer, over and over again when running a backup. You _should_ see the disk become full, then suddenly have free space (I don’t think Discourse keeps a backup that has failed, for obvious reasons).
I hope this helps!
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [4월 25, 2016, 10:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/17 "2016-04-25T10:10:13Z")
> [@Xack](#):
>
> Is the linked post relevant? Just wondering. 🙂
As I wrote - I would be OK without a backup of the files if I could use S3 storage for storing the files - I’m just linking to a thread where I explain how I can’t get it to work properly.
> [@Xack](#):
>
> You should run df -h on the droplet, perhaps on a timer, over and over again when running a backup. You should see the disk become full, then suddenly have free space (I don’t think Discourse keeps a backup that has failed, for obvious reasons).
That might indeed be the reason, though I never observed that it ran out of space. But a looong time ago I tried this and it went to about 300 MB free space and then stopped…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9월 21, 2016, 12:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-cant-get-a-good-backup-it-fails-after-after-create-hook/36946/18 "2016-09-21T00:31:26Z")