I’m unable to restore from a S3 Backup of Discourse. Steps to reproduce: Have a Backup of Discourse on S3. Setup a fresh install of Discourse. Create admin account. Connect Discourse to S3 Locate the Discourse backup in my S3 backup lists Enable restore Attempt restore Restore Fails Log: [imag…

:warning: This is what ask.discourse.org returns, I cannot guarantee it’s safe or that it even works On another topic During a paused restore, you have an opportunity to temporarily modify or clean up problematic data such as uploads or posts in the database before Discourse proceeds with comp…

Welcome! :blob_wave: [image] TehLeo: I’ve tried everything Does “everything” include looking at similar error logs here? https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=%22posts%20are%20not%20remapped%22%20%22s3%20migration%20failed%22%20order%3Alatest This result in particular: [image] …

I followed these instructions, and I recieved 9 posts from the quarry. The old post doesn’t detail what to do with these posts, or how to correct the issue past this point.

Did you run this while the restore was paused?

Unable to restore from S3 backup - Fails

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TehLeo (Chris) March 20, 2025, 11:47pm 6

So I was able to just delete all 9 posts using the following Rails command:
Post.find(id#).destroy

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Unable to restore from S3 backup - Fails

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