When the administrator manually backs up, the error “EXCEPTION: No such file or directory @ rb_io_flush_raw - ” appears, but I don’t know why this exception occurs. Can experts from Discourse help me? [2025-07-09 01:37:48] 'jl-brother1' has started the backup! [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Marking backup as running... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Making sure '/var/www/discourse/tmp/backups/default/2025-07-09-013748' exists... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Making sure '/var/www/discourse/public/backups/default' exists... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Updating metadata... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Dumping the public schema of the database... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] EXCEPTION: No such file or directory @ rb_io_flush_raw - [2025-07-09 01:37:48] /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:160:in `popen' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:160:in `dump_public_schema' /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:36:in `run' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:9:in `backup' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:31:in `block in ' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in `fork' /var/www/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in ` ' [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Deleting old backups... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Cleaning stuff up... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Removing '.tar' leftovers... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Marking backup as finished... [2025-07-09 01:37:48] Notifying 'jl-brother1' of the end of the backup... [2025-07-09 01:37:53] Finished!

[image] pfaffman: you back up from the command line thank you very much! I try discourse backup command line which is success, But I don’t know why it’s error on admin’s backup website?

A file does not exist error occurred during database backup

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 9, 2025, 2:13pm 2

Is this a standard install? Is your disk full? What happens if you back up from the command line?

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A file does not exist error occurred during database backup

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