As mentioned in the title, my VPS was attacked. I tried to get the current discourse version information by running ./discourse-doctor, but it failed. Fortunately, I had downloaded a backup to my local machine. How can I retrieve the current version information from this backup? Thanks.

[image] Alienazk: if a VPS has been hacked, is it still possible to back up the discourse? That depends on what state they left it in. You could try to go through the rails console: cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app discourse backup cd public/backups/default scp * user@destination.exam…

How can I get the current version information from my backup?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) May 21, 2025, 10:16pm 2

What problem are you trying to solve? You can restore the backup to any newer version.

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How can I get the current version information from my backup?

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