# Step-by-step for moving large site uploads to S3?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 9, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/step-by-step-for-moving-large-site-uploads-to-s3/94321 "2018-08-09T16:01:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gunnar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gunnar/32/119647_2.png) [@Gunnar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gunnar)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/step-by-step-for-moving-large-site-uploads-to-s3/94321/1 "2018-08-09T16:01:41Z")

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Our site has close to 2 million posts. Our uploads directory is currently 18 GB in size. The site is active 24/7.

What would be a recommended step-by-step procedure for moving our uploads to S3?

Can we avoid downtime while doing this?

Thanks,  
Gunnar

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