# Is secure storage for Redis necessary?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-secure-storage-for-redis-necessary/234701
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [August 1, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-secure-storage-for-redis-necessary/234701 "2022-08-01T16:46:48Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-secure-storage-for-redis-necessary/234701/4 "2022-08-01T17:16:50Z")

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> [@tobi1](#):
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> if Redis is lost, that will destroy all history etc.?

Can you define “history” here?

Losing the Redis DB (equivalent of `redis-cli flushall`) is something the Discourse app will recover from without major problems, but you will lose some stuff, like emails that were in a queue, etc. So while it’s not something catastrophic, if you can avoid it without much hassle I’d recommend you to.

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