Is there any way to restore your site from backup in the terminal?

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restoring from a app.yml and an external tar.gz file was mixing up some of the items I found along this thread:

TARBALL_PATH=$(ls local/backups/-*.tar.gz | tail -n 1)
TARBALL_NAME=$(basename ${TARBALL_PATH})
cat ${TARBALL_PATH} | docker exec -i app sh -c "cat - > /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/${TARBALL_NAME}"
docker exec -i app sh -x << EOF
discourse enable_restore
discourse restore ${TARBALL_NAME}
discourse disable_restore
EOF

I had several pitfalls:

  1. the tarball to restore has to be placed exactly in /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/
  2. the /var/www/discourse/script/discourse restore tarball-name did not work due to some single sign-on known issue
  3. the version of thor installed by gem install thor was too recent and then incompatible with the rest.
  4. finally one of the tarball I tried to restore from did not contain the “meta.json” file…

Hope this helps other in their restore journey.