I’ve been running into issues trying to run a restore on our Staging Discourse instance. Staging is running v2.4.0.beta1 +36 . Any idea where the breakdown might be or where to look? Thanks in advance! Below is the end of the log output: [2019-07-16 20:08:12] ALTER TABLE [2019-07-16 20:08:12] ALTER…

Discourse keeps a backup schema so it can roll back when a restore goes bad. You can go into your Postgres and issue drop schema backup cascade; If you don’t know how to do that you shouldn’t probably be doing it.

I did on the old server. Restoring I got the same error [2026-01-16 13:45:52] EXCEPTION: 3 posts are not remapped to new S3 upload URL. S3 migration failed for db ‘default’. [2026-01-16 13:45:52] /var/www/discourse/lib/file_store/to_s3_migration.rb:132:in `raise_or_log’

[Bild] Saiano: This check gave me 0 errors Well. Darn. Not sure what else to tell you. Did the good find your uploads? I’d probably just use the --pause switch and stop the restore before it does that check. I’d do what Richard said.

I’m not sure about your exact situation but you might simply want to turn off s3 uploads, make the backup, restore, and turn it on again. This has saved me many times.

So, I have to turn off this options, correct? [image]

Correct. uncheck “enable s3 uploads” backup / download upload / restore check “enable s3 uploads”

[Bild] RGJ: Correct. uncheck “enable s3 uploads” backup / download upload / restore check “enable s3 uploads” While checking “enable s3 uploads” I got an error [IMG_8462]

I don’t speak Italian when it’s not about food… maybe you can do us all a favor and copy/paste it into Google Translate :slight_smile:

[Bild] RGJ: I don’t speak Italian when it’s not about food… maybe you can do us all a favor and copy/paste it into Google Translate :slight_smile: Sorry Enable S3 uploads Stores uploads on Amazon S3 disk space. IMPORTANT: requires valid S3 credentials to be provided (both the access key ID …

I assume you already did it in app.yml then. Are (new) uploads working correctly? If so, then there is no issue.

[Bild] RGJ: I assume you already did it in app.yml then. Are (new) uploads working correctly? If so, then there is no issue. In app.yml I have s3 configured, correct. So, what I have to do to safely backup and restore without checking uploads? Simply uncheck “enable s3 uploads” doesn’t wor…

Wiederherstellungsprozess beim Migrieren von Uploads zu S3 abgebrochen

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Saiano (Saiano) 24. Januar 2026 um 15:43 52

Vielen Dank, es funktioniert.

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Wiederherstellungsprozess beim Migrieren von Uploads zu S3 abgebrochen

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