When the production site uploads folder gets really big you don't want to rsync everything to your local machine just to fix a few bugs. Only download what is needed, right?
That's what this storage class does.
- Make sure that you only use this if
DEBUG = True
- Add
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'http_fallback_storage.FallbackStorage
andFALLBACK_STORAGE_URL = 'http://example.com/media/'
to your Django settings