Set up file and image uploads to S3

[ericomeehan (Eric Meehan)]

Enable hidden setting to include S3 uploads in the backups

Ok. I didn’t know. But, what’s the diff between ‘Local Uploads’ and “Files Stored in S3 ‘Uploads’” folder? Also, though I haven’t changed the setting in web_only or in rails console as told above YET, but only chose the one setting told here. But still when I ran the backup, just 10 min ago, it showed as if it downloaded thousands of files, (which I presume could only be on my aws s3 storage bucket, and ‘Download’ word itself means it is downloading from remote S3 bucket folder). Also it is …

From this thread, it seems that this setting downloads the individual files from S3, but I wonder if there might be issues with posts referencing S3 URLs rather than local files. I’m not sure how that is handled in the database. I would be interested to know if your migration to another provider was successful, @Rhod.