[STARTED] ‘user1’ has started the restore! Marking restore as running… Making sure /workspace/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2026-04-29-211652 exists… Copying archive to tmp directory… Extracting dump file… Validating metadata… Current version: 20260420014648 Restored version: 20260420014648 Enablin…

hi @ziln :wave: welcome to discourse meta :slight_smile: [image] ziln: ERROR: type “ai_moderation_setting_type” already exists EXCEPTION: psql failed: ERROR: type “ai_moderation_setting_type” already exists i think it looks like your target instance isn’t clean or has data already, and yo…

I don’t know. That guy doesn’t sound like he knows much. :wink:

thanks for your input :slight_smile: Yes, I’ve tried droping and creating new db but I got the same error. I was only able to restore backup via SQL manually.

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supermathie (Michael Brown) June 9, 2026, 11:26am 5

What’s the postgres role setup you have in your situation?

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