# If automatic backup fails, there should be a warning
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [June 13, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461 "2017-06-13T22:10:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/1 "2017-06-13T22:10:08Z")
I’ve had a site’s auto backups fail because there was not enough disk space, but I didn’t realize it. Running out of disk space is something that I would like to know about. Could the backup job notify the admin(s) if it fails?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/2 "2017-06-13T22:27:12Z")
Sure @tgxworld can you make sure this is the case?
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/3 "2017-06-14T06:16:36Z")
Sure fixed in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f6060bfbf6f8199a934668f559df6b87e96caac4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f6060bfbf6f8199a934668f559df6b87e96caac4)
Note that inviting a group into a topic will now trigger the right notification as per
> [@Inviting a group to a message does not trigger a notification mail](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inviting-a-group-to-a-message-does-not-trigger-a-notification-mail/50509/5):
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> Fixed this in
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/4 "2017-06-14T07:29:59Z")
These are invites to the backup messages that already exist in the system account yes?
But have zero visibility.. I wonder if we could link to this from the backups page at least?
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/5 "2017-06-14T07:36:00Z")
A group invite would now trigger a notification so we have better visibility than before. What I also considered was to add an admin dashboard alert on top of inviting the admins group to the failed backup log PM.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/6 "2017-06-14T07:40:29Z")
I like the invite to existing backup topic approach, since one _CLEARLY_ already exists 😉 .. but nobody could find it.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/7 "2017-06-14T07:44:45Z")
Hehe Im a little confused about the previous reply. Do you still think that it’ll be hard to find the topic? Inviting sends out an email as well so admins are notified via a notification and email.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/if-automatic-backup-fails-there-should-be-a-warning/64461/8 "2017-06-15T09:00:12Z")
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