# Issues backing up to s3

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-backing-up-to-s3/79307>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** backups, s3\
**Created:** [January 29, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-backing-up-to-s3/79307 "2018-01-29T21:46:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-backing-up-to-s3/79307/2 "2018-01-29T23:32:08Z")

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Perhaps the credentials are correct but the account does not have the permissions required to create new buckets or something like that.

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