# The upload of a backup seems to be allowed in read-only mode
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** read-only
**Created:** [January 30, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386 "2018-01-30T19:54:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/1 "2018-01-30T19:54:57Z")
If you are in **read-only mode** and you try to upload a backup via gui, the site go ahead and seems to upload the backup even if this is not true.
When you are in read-only mode there should be an alert telling you that you can not load the backup before you disable that mode.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/2 "2018-01-30T22:42:09Z")
Hmm shouldn’t uploading a backup be OK in read only mode? I am not sure, @zogstrip?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/6 "2018-01-30T23:11:30Z")
🤔 I just tested and uploading a backup while in **read-only** mode works as expected.
@dax do you have a repro?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/7 "2018-01-30T23:12:43Z")
Did the backup show up? I was able to upload and get the “uploaded successfully” message, but the backup never appeared in the list.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/8 "2018-01-30T23:15:31Z")
> [@jomaxro](#):
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> but the backup never appeared in the list
They take a little while to appear since there is a background task that needs to run in sidekiq to merge the uploaded chunks. Waiting one minute is often enough.
PRO TIP: clicking Logs and then Backups will force a refresh of the backups list.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/9 "2018-01-30T23:21:30Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/10 "2018-01-30T23:22:01Z")
Closing this but clearly the UI message presented should warn about the refresh @zogstrip that’s the real “bug” here.. and should be fixed.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-upload-of-a-backup-seems-to-be-allowed-in-read-only-mode/79386/11 "2018-01-31T11:05:24Z")
I’ve added some code to push the new list of backups once the file is merged so it automagically updates 🎆
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d233ecbe34f319a8f41ae995c9175fe7a127a353](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d233ecbe34f319a8f41ae995c9175fe7a127a353)
Also, here’s the new message
