Back failed when migrating from AWS to digitalocean. I have tried both command line method and GUI. Both methods failed. I have no idea what to do next. Need some help. ALTER TABLE ALTER TABLE ALTER TABLE Migrating the database... Reconnecting to the database... Reloading site settings... Disabling outgoing emails for non-staff users... Disabling readonly mode... Clearing category cache... Clearing emoji cache... Clear theme cache Remapping uploads... Restoring uploads, this may take a while... EXCEPTION: Please provide the following environment variables: - DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET - DISCOURSE_S3_REGION and either - DISCOURSE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID - DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or - DISCOURSE_S3_USE_IAM_PROFILE /var/www/discourse/lib/file_store/to_s3_migration.rb:36:in `s3_options_from_env' /var/www/discourse/lib/file_store/s3_store.rb:201:in `copy_from' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/uploads_restorer.rb:48:in `restore_uploads' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/uploads_restorer.rb:30:in `restore' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb:59:in `run' script/discourse:143:in `restore' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor.rb:392:in `dispatch' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/thor-1.0.1/lib/thor/base.rb:485:in `start' script/discourse:284:in ` ' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:63:in `load' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:63:in `kernel_load' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb:28:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:476:in `exec' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/invocation.rb:127:in `invoke_command' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor.rb:399:in `dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:30:in `dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/base.rb:476:in `start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/cli.rb:24:in `start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/exe/bundle:46:in `block in ' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/lib/bundler/friendly_errors.rb:123:in `with_friendly_errors' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/bundler-2.1.4/exe/bundle:34:in ` ' /usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in `load' /usr/local/bin/bundle:23:in ` ' Trying to rollback... Rolling back... Cleaning stuff up... Dropping functions from the discourse_functions schema... Removing tmp '/var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2020-04-14-161013' directory... Unpausing sidekiq... Marking restore as finished... Notifying 'system' of the end of the restore... Finished! [FAILED] Restore done. All the info below is already provided in the new install. - DISCOURSE_S3_BUCKET - DISCOURSE_S3_REGION - DISCOURSE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID - DISCOURSE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Backup failed when migrating from AWS to Digitalocean

michaeld (Michael - Communiteq) April 14, 2020, 5:48pm 2

Turn off enable_s3_uploads, backup, restore, and turn it on again.

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