If later on I want to switch from discourse hosting to my own server, does the site backups suffice? Right now i’m hosting on/with Discourse, and I see there is option for backups. I do a backup and then when I go to click on “download” it says that I have to contact Discourse support for them to p…

Not 100% sure since you described that you get a “please contact” kind of message and I’m not hosted on Discourse myself but according to this: [image] adiru: I can click download and then its sends me an email stating that I can download from the email link… are these downloads refering to one…

Thanks for the reply this is screenshot of what I’m seeing… [image]

Quick question about site backups

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EricGT (EricGT) May 25, 2020, 12:36am 5

FYI

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