Hi, I host discourse for a small community. We have a very small, old VPS. The disk space cannot accommodate backups anymore, so I did a quick trick and mounted remote file system (using sshfs) as /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default . Everything seems to work, I can create / delete a f…

Nobody? Any idea how to fix it (apart from some sort of I don’ t know, nfs over ssh tunnel)? :frowning_face:

Disk is cheap and Discourse migrations are some of the most simple. It’s probably worth considering migrating VPS. if you can’t currently accommodate backups then things like a postgres upgrade will be a total showstopper. It’s not worth putting time into this for most because time is worth more th…

Hi! This likely happens because the Discourse backup process runs with effective user ID 0, thus you will likely need to pass this option to sshfs: sshfs -o allow_root SERVER:PATH MOUNT_POINT Or if you’re using unprivileged containers, allow_other instead.

Would you be willing to donate some of that cheap disk? :wink:

Thank you, I will try it. It does make sense. :+1:

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puchal 3월 1, 2023, 4:52오후 6

감사합니다. 시도해 볼게요. 맞는 말씀이네요.

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