Server’s RAID died couple days back and we’re trying to bring back to life our Discourse instance from a filesystem backup. No luck so far. I get this error message from ./launcher rebuild app: FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: /root/upgrade_postgres failed with return #<Process::Status…

Oh cool! So The source cluster was not shut down cleanly. You will need to follow this [image] PostgreSQL 13 update If you need to postpone the update during your next rebuild, you can swap the PostgreSQL template on your app.yml file by changing "templates/postgres.template.yml" to "template…

[image] ulysses4ever: we’re trying to bring back to life our Discourse instance from a filesystem backup Why don’t you use our official backup features and restore a backup file to a new server? That is our supported recovery method and it’s documented at Create download and restore a backup…

This method assumes you have a backup prepared by a running discourse instance. I don’t have one (anymore) :cry:

Backups are enabled by default and saved on the host file system. If you have a file system backup you have the backup files in the backups folder…

I believe weekly backup is on by default in a normal Discourse install.

I may end up using one of those but still I need a running instance and I keep getting those errors when trying to run it.

It a lot easier to move the backup file to another server and follow Restore a backup from the command line

How do you mean “another sever”: I only have a single server.

Okay, so let’s take a step back. When you issue a rebuild, you end up with a error. Can you paste more than just 4 lines of error so we know exactly what is failing?

You maybe missed it because I added the link to the full output only in an update to the top post: Full output of both commands available here .

Recover from filesystem backup: can't rebuild nor start

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ulysses4ever (Artem Pelenitsyn) February 14, 2021, 2:14am 5

The backup feature doesn’t seem to have been enabled: I’m seeing only a couple of backup tarballs with rather old modification dates…

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