# S3\_backup\_bucket Option Missing From Settings \> Backups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-bucket-option-missing-from-settings-backups/224802
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 20, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-bucket-option-missing-from-settings-backups/224802 "2022-04-20T01:29:12Z")
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### Author: ![astuffedtiger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astuffedtiger/32/258958_2.png) [@astuffedtiger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/astuffedtiger)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-bucket-option-missing-from-settings-backups/224802/1 "2022-04-20T01:29:12Z")

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I’ve looked around on the forums and searched Google, but I can’t seem to find anything related to this issue. First I went to my site, then Site Settings \> Backups where I could have sworn was where to set the AWS S3 bucket to use to store backups under the `s3_backup_bucket` field. However it’s not there. Google turned up [this thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-automatic-backups-for-discourse) which seems to indicate that is indeed where one sets the S3 bucket to use for backups…

My Discourse version is `2.9.0.beta4`. Am I blind 😂, did the setting move somewhere else? Here’s what my Backups page looks like:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-04-19 at 20.27.16PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/1/4/514c4f67633635800d540d12ad5499bcf2018146.png)

Any help on figuring out where this setting went would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-bucket-option-missing-from-settings-backups/224802/2 "2022-04-20T02:17:13Z")

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One possible reason could be that the setting is being declared in your app.yml file.

Declaring it in the yml or env supersedes the Gui values and that could probably be causing it to be hidden from the frontend.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-bucket-option-missing-from-settings-backups/224802/3 "2022-04-20T03:20:53Z")

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And configuring it with the env variables means that you can do a command line restore using only your app.yml file.

I think that it makes sense to have those settings to always be hidden from the UX.

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### Author: ![astuffedtiger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astuffedtiger/32/258958_2.png) [@astuffedtiger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/astuffedtiger)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-bucket-option-missing-from-settings-backups/224802/4 "2022-04-20T13:57:00Z")

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That does look to be the case! I looked at my `app.yml` file and sure enough I found the backup bucket settings in there. Thank you!

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-bucket-option-missing-from-settings-backups/224802/5 "2022-05-20T13:57:12Z")

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