Here you can see that the backup previous to the current one was done on January 5th, if automatic backups aren’t already set up and are not visible here: https://forum.awesystems.info/admin/logs/staff_action_logs
A once a week automatic backup could be better, if things can go wrong which having a more recent backup could fix, and then automatic backup deletion of the older backups.
An admin would need to manually place a backup in a publicly accessible location I think to be able to download it. How are you then going to view it though? Create, download, and restore a backup of your Discourse database - admins - Discourse Meta
Edit: you don’t want that though as that would have all data, including user information and PMs for example. Maybe there are other export options.
Anyone can do this:
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610?page=2
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610?page=3
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610?page=4
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610?page=5
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610?page=6
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610?page=7
https://forum.awesystems.info/raw/1610?page=8
Or this: Slow Chat (prints the topic)
From: How to print or export very long topics - support - Discourse Meta