So, I have a ~20GB backup. When I try to restore it in a fresh Discourse install on a 60GB DigitalOcean droplet, the UI freezes, and it ends up with the following situation: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev tmpfs 396M 26M…

Maybe you should try a database only backup, then you can copy all the images over in a different manual step? Since most of the size in the backup is the images.

[image] meglio: The UI stuck at “CREATE INDEX…”. I would first follow @codinghorror recommendation here and do a restore of database only and copy files by hand. Additionally, for meta when I restored it sat for about 30 minutes on CREATE INDEX, you are just going to have to wait it out. To …

[image] sam: I would first follow @codinghorror recommendation here and do a restore of database only and copy files by hand. Did so and it worked. Thanks Jeff and Sam for your input. [image] sam: Additionally, for meta when I restored it sat for about 30 minutes on CREATE INDEX, you are…

Can't restore a 20GB backup on a 60GB Digital Ocean instance (fresh Discourse install)

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ljpp (ljpp) January 7, 2018, 7:53am 5

Alternative solution would have been increase your droplet size temporarily, scaling back when the job is done.

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Can't restore a 20GB backup on a 60GB Digital Ocean instance (fresh Discourse install)

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