Hello, Whenever I try and backup my site, I get an error. [2022-12-05 00:08:22] pg_dump: executing SEQUENCE SET custom_emojis_id_seq [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Finalizing backup... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Creating archive: blackiron-2022-12-05-000759-v20221201035918.tar.gz [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Making sure archive does not already exist... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Creating empty archive... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] EXCEPTION: /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:131:in `exec': tar: /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/blackiron-2022-12-05-000759-v20221201035918.tar: Cannot open: Permission denied tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [2022-12-05 00:08:22] /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:158:in `execute_command' /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:131:in `exec' /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:28:in `execute_command' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:205:in `create_archive' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:41:in `run' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:9:in `backup' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:34:in `block in ' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in `fork' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in ` ' [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Deleting old backups... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Cleaning stuff up... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Removing '.tar' leftovers... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Marking backup as finished... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Refreshing disk stats... [2022-12-05 00:08:22] Notifying 'darkpixlz' of the end of the backup... [2022-12-05 00:08:29] Finished! I’m not sure what’s causing this. It was working fine before yesterday, when we moved to a new machine, which was fresh before we copied over the app.yml file to include our config.

Are you running discourse as root? What is the disk mapping (in the app.yml)?

Yes I am, and I’ll check the disk layout.

These are the disk mappings: volumes: - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone guest: /shared - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log guest: /var/log

Strange. I would enter the container and see what) whether that directory exists and if you can create a directory there.

We ran the setup script, copied the app.yml, and restored from backup. [image] Jay Pfaffman: Strange. I would enter the container and see what) whether that directory exists and if you can create a directory there. I will do that!

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) December 6, 2022, 11:20am 7

Did you copy (parts of) the /var/discourse folder to the new server? That might have messed with the permissions/owner.

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