The creation of the temporary backup file went smoothly. Its when the file is moved from /var/www/discourse/tmp/backups/default/ to /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/ that issues surface. [2024-01-28 05:47:54] EXCEPTION: /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:137:in `exec': Failed to move da…

I am not really sure what happened. But yesterday night the system backed up successfully. Today I manually backed up also successfully. I made no change to the system between now and then. Oh well.

Those two locations are (normally) on the same disk, so it can’t be disk space trouble, so indeed I think it must be permission trouble. Of course backups will normally work - assuming you did a standard install - and so it seems likely that your manual creation of a directory has something to do wi…

Can app inside docker see the system outside docker? I’m living in the believe it can’t be done that way.

[image] ckshen: does this issue have anything to do with the fact that I previously created the /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default/ folder (outside the container) myself when I used command line to restore a backup on a new instance Probably. Try deleting it.

Backup failure when temp backup file is moved to backups/default directory

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 28, 2024, 10:59am 4

Probably. Try deleting it.

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Backup failure when temp backup file is moved to backups/default directory

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