# Images after a restore don't have S3 bucket URL

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-after-a-restore-dont-have-s3-bucket-url/404659
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** s3, hosting
**Created:** [6 juni 2026 om 03:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-after-a-restore-dont-have-s3-bucket-url/404659 "2026-06-06T03:09:00Z")
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### Author: ![Maxine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maxine/32/566484_2.png) [@Maxine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maxine)
#### Post date: [12 juni 2026 om 08:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-after-a-restore-dont-have-s3-bucket-url/404659/10 "2026-06-12T08:51:19Z")

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So to answer all of these questions:

1. No hostnames were changed. Just updated A records, backed up and done.
2. User avatars were missing(and that was because I did not migrate the uploads folder). S3 images for attachments/media was re-written for the forum URL. Not the bucket URL.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/e/f/bef5efba9cac2a7354c1795f1ef4c890ffa21fce.png)

So whilst I was expecting URLs for S3 uploads for the above to be written as `https://some-bucket-name-here.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/optimized` it was actually `https://forum.somedomainhere.com/uploads/optimized` which of course isn’t gonna work.

I can literally spin up another VM again and do a straight up restore if you want me to verify all of the steps I’ve taken.

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