We’ve officially kicked off the Rails Girls Summer of Code 2017 with our group, berlin diamonds. They’re going to be working on adding extra backup providers to Discourse. This topic can be used by the teams involved for questions and answers, as well to track progress. Background Discourse has a…

Yes, just cloning it into the plugins folder should do the trick!

To be more specific, you can do something like this locally: $ cd discourse/plugins $ git clone git@github.com:xfalcox/discourse-backups-to-dropbox.git $ cd .. $ rm -rm tmp $ bundle exec rails server Then the plugin will be installed in plugins/discourse-backups-to-dropbox

Hi! This is Jen, and together with @kajatiger will be working on creating the google-drive plugin during this Rails Girls Summer of Code, happy to meet the community of Discourse! :allthethings:

hi @Falco ! should we be able to do backups from dev? We keep getting a “backup failed” with a long bunch of errors in our log. 2017-07-06 13:32:48] EXCEPTION: Failed to archive uploads. tar: Option --warning=no-file-changed is not supported @kajatiger

Looks to me like the version of the tar program you are running is missing some features we need. What OS are you running? If this is a mac can you try brew install tar

We’ve solved the issue installing a linux-compatible version of tar for OSX: $ brew install coreutils $ brew install gnu-tar --with-default-names

Here is a little update on what we have been doing so far: we looked at the drop-box plugin and learned that it overwrites the after_create_hook method inside the backup.rb model with a Backup.class_eval we used the same method to hook into the backup in discourse we realized that the GoogleDrive …

[status update] Hi all! We’ve created the first version of the Google Drive backup plugin. It works with a service account from Google Drive. How to use it it’s described in the README file :slight_smile: This is the link to the repository: https://github.com/berlindiamonds/discourse-googledrive…

here is also a new blog post to have an overview: http://berlindiamonds.blogspot.de/2017/07/creating-plugin-for-discourse.html

Rails Girls Summer of Code 2017: Backup Providers

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kajatiger (kaja santro) 5 يوليو 2017، 12:03م 3

@Falco Can I install the dropbox plugin without using the docker container? I would like to just clone it into the discourse/plugins folder…

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Rails Girls Summer of Code 2017: Backup Providers

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