About a year ago, @tobiaseigen asked how to properly shut down Discourse: [image] Apologies for the newb question. My preferred workflow has been to do a snapshot on the digitalocean dashboard before doing discourse updates, in case Bad Things Happen. As I am realizing now, just running shutdo…

Discourse data is written to the host, so whatever has been written, will survive. Unless you’re on a very busy Discourse instance, I would say you could simply shutdown now. On a very busy Discourse instance, I’d stop Nginx and DB (in Docker) manually, then shutdown the app and OS. I’d probably m…

[image] omfg: (sudo ./shtudown-docker.sh isn’t that hard) I know – but this doesn’t protect against other sysadmins or unattended-upgrades :smile: [image] sam: Shutdown is safe, we have a shutdown sequence that docker triggers when stopped This is great news. Thanks!

[image] fefrei: I know – but this doesn’t protect against other sysadmins or unattended-upgrades You can disable unattended upgrades (on the OS level). And you could insert those steps in the system shutdown script. But Sam said they did that inside of the docker script.

Properly shut down Discourse when host shuts down

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sam (Sam Saffron) October 14, 2015, 10:38am 3

Shutdown is safe, we have a shutdown sequence that docker triggers when stopped

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