# Notification when uploading backup to cloud storage fails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-uploading-backup-to-cloud-storage-fails/269994>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** backups, s3\
**Created:** [June 29, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-uploading-backup-to-cloud-storage-fails/269994 "2023-06-29T07:39:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![markschmucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/markschmucker/32/141599_2.png) [@markschmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markschmucker)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-uploading-backup-to-cloud-storage-fails/269994/1 "2023-06-29T07:39:09Z")

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As discussed at the link below, if Discourse is configured to upload backups to cloud storage, the upload can fail silently, leaving the tar file on local disk. After a few such failures the forum goes down because there is no disk space. Request a notification when an upload fails, like there is when a backup fails.

[Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads - documentation / sysadmin - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-an-s3-compatible-object-storage-provider-for-uploads/148916/420)

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