Hi there - I’ve been running Discourse on DigitalOcean for the past two years. Just this week I tried to upgrade and every time I tried to do it from the control panel it would fail. I tried SSH’ing in and doing it manually, but for some reason DO’s setup of Discourse–at least at the time I originally set it up–didn’t have the var/discourse directory. Regardless, now I’m getting 502 and I can’t get my application to start back up again. Running the logs app from the /docker directory I get Could not find activesupport-4.2.8 in any of the sources What I would love to do is to start completely over - perhaps by installing with whatever new paradigm DO/Discourse has for 2017 BUT I want to be able to keep my old database - my years of posts, comments, etc. Is there any resource or suggestion anyone would have about how to go about doing this? I would super appreciate it as I have a pretty big active community that is wondering what happened! Thank you

[image] jameshull: a var/docker folder That is where Discourse used to be installed (years ago), so yes, that sounds right. Discourse does do automated backups, and that is what you should be looking for. DO droplet backups will not help you reinstall Discourse and then restore the database.

Thanks! Sounds super obvious - but two questions: Is this better than the one-click install app option on DO? What’s the difference? How do I go about downloading my last backup? What is the location of all the important info? In DO, my only options are to Create Droplet from a Backup or Restore Droplet from a Backup, nothing about downloading - but I’m sure I can do it manually if I know the essential parts.

[image] jameshull: Is this better than the one-click install app option on DO? What’s the difference? The one-click install is out of date (2 major versions if I’m not mistaken) and there have been a number of support requests recently that appeared to be related to the DO install. [image] jameshull: How do I go about downloading my last backup? What is the location of all the important info? Are you still able to access Discourse from the browser? If so, download your backup from /admin/backups. If not, the files are located (by default) in /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default. If you can find the installation location in your droplet, the shared folder should exist and from there you should be able to get the backups.

And if I somehow don’t have a /var/discourse folder but a var/docker folder…does that sound right? I can’t get into the control panel from the browser, only SSH through Terminal. Also, just realized, these are DO’s automatic backups of the entire droplet done once a week. Unless Discourse does backups automatically I might not have them in that location.

[image] jomaxro: The one-click install is out of date (2 major versions if I’m not mistaken) What ?! ?! We got to contact Digital Ocean about this @codinghorror originally the plan was for this to be updated weekly by Digital Ocean staff.

Before contacting DO I’d really appreciate it if someone would double check me on that. I’ve never personally used the DO one-click install…I’ve just seen reports of people doing it and coming in with old versions. Edit: I’ve got some credit, testing this now…

Hold off… I was just doing that … indeed, this is a blast from the past! commit 0113fce420bcf3bc18a38c6864150334fdefa273 Author: Sam Date: Tue Apr 12 13:29:48 2016 +1000 FEATURE: automatically close topics with 10k+ posts FEATURE: automatically close messages with 2k+ posts Both configurable via `auto_close_messages_post_count` and `auto_close_topics_post_count` root@delete-me-app:/var/www/discourse# cat /VERSION 1.0.13 root@delete-me-app:/var/www/discourse# git branch master * tests-passed root@delete-me-app:/var/www/discourse# psql --version psql (PostgreSQL) 9.3.11 Looks like it is 1.6.0.beta.1, vintage :wine_glass: Discourse. Yeah, if Digital Ocean are not keeping this up to date we really should lobby them to remove it. Also for added bonus, vintage ubuntu: root@delete-me:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty And you also get an old version of Docker that has lots of known issues: root@delete-me:~# docker version Client: Version: 1.10.3

[image] jomaxro: The one-click install is out of date (2 major versions if I’m not mistaken) and there have been a number of support requests recently that appeared to be related to the DO install. I installed with it and it upgraded when I rebuilt it and ran the setup.

They have been contacted by @techAPJ multiple times, if you would like to take a run at it feel free.

Yeah I am doing my usual Twitter, Contact DigitalOcean etc dance. I suspect the old maintainers of this have moved along.

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Start a new droplet on Digital Ocean, install Discourse using the official guide and after the first login upload your last backup and restore.

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