# S3 assets broken after moving forum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-assets-broken-after-moving-forum/204627>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 28, 2021, 8:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-assets-broken-after-moving-forum/204627 "2021-09-28T08:48:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![LimitlessGreen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/limitlessgreen/32/235212_2.png) [@LimitlessGreen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LimitlessGreen)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 8:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-assets-broken-after-moving-forum/204627/1 "2021-09-28T08:48:56Z")

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Hi,

I had to move an abandoned Discourse forum. Luckily, we had multiple admins, so it was possible to do and download a backup. We used a S3 bucked for our assets, which was kind of a problem. I’ll make a feature request at this point:

Make it possible to include S3 assets into backups

I found out (not sure if it was before or after rebaking the posts), that S3 asset URLs got rewritten to internal ones. So I extracted all `original` and `optimized` S3 URLs out of the database file and downloaded them (kind of) manually. After moving them to the right place, all missing images got displayed. … It would be great to have an automatic feature for that.

So far, I encountered three bugs:

1. Broken preview images, working enlarged images

- Old Forum: [https://discuss.openhdfpv.com/t/asus-usb-ac56-wiring-antennas-etc/103](https://discuss.openhdfpv.com/t/asus-usb-ac56-wiring-antennas-etc/103)
- New Forum: [https://forum.openhdfpv.org/t/asus-usb-ac56-wiring-antennas-etc/103](https://forum.openhdfpv.org/t/asus-usb-ac56-wiring-antennas-etc/103)

1. Working preview images, no mouse over for enlarging images

- /t/microlongrange-openhd-edition/379 _… I can only do 2 links on my first post_

1. Gravatars are broken (maybe unrelated):  
- ![grafik](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/6/d620fddef0356925be5320411ef08a64c4d15ddb.png)

I found no problems on new posts.

Thanks for this great project,  
Limitless Green

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