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

[tophee (Christoph)]

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How to sync your backups to cloud storage (alternative method)

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. If you nevertheless want to store your backup on your Dropbox or Google Drive follow the steps below. I will use dropbox as an example but the instructions will also work with any other backend supported by rclone. Disclaimer: The instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04. and they work for me but I am not an expert at …