# Prevent deletion of backups from interface

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-deletion-of-backups-from-interface/226173>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 5, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-deletion-of-backups-from-interface/226173 "2022-05-05T00:42:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-deletion-of-backups-from-interface/226173/4 "2022-05-06T13:41:22Z")

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The other issue is that to solve your problem Discourse would have to never delete backups since if it could trim them then the rogue admin could change the number to keep to 1 and then make one to erase it.

If you want to be able to delete s3 backups only from S3 panel (where you’ll never have a rogue admin?), then change your S3 permissions so that Discourse can’t delete them.

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