How to Back Up Discourse

I’ve recently set up a Discourse forum on DigitalOcean, and was wondering how to implement automatic backups. Turns out Discourse supports both automatic backups and uploading them to S3. Couldn’t be easier!

To save money, you might want to create a lifecycle rule on S3 to archive the backups to Glacier, which is a slower, but cost-efficient, alternative to S3.