Hi, On a self-hosted server, what are the best ways to prevent our forum to be gone forever? How to properly and securely backup our precious? On a now deleted topic , @falco said: Doing file system snapshots isn’t supported and may result in data loss. Also, about the backup feature from Hetzn…

There will never be a 100% secure way to store data, having that clear, Discourse has a really great backup process that runs in a schedulable basis. If I don’t trust a lot of devices and I can increase monthly expenditure I’d start be offloading the backups to S3 enabling S3 replication, from ther…

[image] Canapin: On my forum, I use rclone and sync my local backup folders with a google drive folder. If you remotely synce /var/discourse/containers and /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backupsyou'll be good. If your server goes away, you'll need only the containeryml` file(s) and the most…

See also this: [image] Use rclone to sync backups to Dropbox or Google Drive Sysadmins There is a plugin that allows you to sync your discourse backups to various cloud storage providers . Unfortunately, it currently doesn’t work with Dropbox and Google Drive. …

Back up to amazon s3 which is automatic and built in.

[image] Canapin: Are some better choices for storing and syncing our backups? We have used rsync for years and it works fine for us. We rsync out backups everyday to offsite backup we control and manage so if the datacenter meets with disaster, we have all the goods :slight_smile: Also, whe…

Thank you for all these information :+1:t6: I wonder why I didn’t even mention s3 :thinking: maybe I was unconsciously thinking about free backup methods… Even though I have a gdrive subscription :upside_down_face: That said, how do I properly estimate the s3 cost regarding Discourse backup storag…

Expect costs of 7GB-months (plus some room to grow) per month with an additional transfer charge every time you need to actually get one of the backups.

Sending or retrieving a backup = 1 request?

Proper way to secure/backup Discourse on self-hosted server?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 20, 2020, 3:21pm 4

I just wrote this: Best Practices for Backups

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