# הגדר הורדות קבצים ותמונות ל-S3 **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229 **Category:** Self-Hosting **Tags:** configuring, how-to **Created:** [6 ביוני,‏ 2013,‏ 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229 "2013-06-06T19:37:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 277
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> [@Enable hidden setting to include S3 uploads in the backups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-hidden-setting-to-include-s3-uploads-in-the-backups/276535/11): > > 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](https://bathindahelper.com/admin/site_settings/category/backups). 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229)._