I am trying to write a script with a cron that can automatically restore my backup from s3 weekly. So it can run every sunday instead of me going in UI and restore it. (Our site’s restore takes a couple hour…) Did anybody do anything similar?

docker exec app bash -c '$(discourse restore | grep discourse|head -1)' will restore the latest backup. Then you’d just get chron to run it when you want.

Why do you need to restore so frequently? Is your site corrupting on a weekly basis?

To check if the backups are actually ok? Did you know most people do not actually perform restore tests. If I would do this, I would spin up a isolated docker container to restore the backup. This docker container would be destroyed after a successful restore. This new container would not be allowed to communicate to the outside world (e.g. not send any emails, not download new content, etc.). Restoring a backup could be a simple docker exec with the commands discourse enable_restore discourse restore .tar.gz But you need the same container image for the site to verify… So maybe a image rebuild after the restore? and then verify.

Anybody wrote a Weekly Auto Restore Script

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jimmy0017 August 1, 2025, 3:27pm 3

This is for a test-site. So i can try experimenting settings/things.

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