Couldn’t get the upload system to work (it never put the backup where it needed to be), so I gave up and copied the file manually to /~discourse/public/backups/default. That got the backup to appear in the list. Clicking Restore on my backup produces the following log output. I am trying to restor…

Redis is chucking an invalid argument on connect. That means your Redis configuration is busticated. Nothing to do with the backup. Probably explains why the upload didn’t work in the first place, too.

I am a C# / ASP.NET developer so this is my very first exposure to Ruby/Rails. And I have very limited Linux experience. However, both my development site and production site are working 100% (on the surface) – what part is redis responsible for, and why would the rest of the site work without prob…

Redis handles work queues, message bus, and caching. Basic click-around browsing works because it doesn’t need any of those things. My suggestion is to fix your Redis config.

I sincerely appreciate your time in replying, but is there a specific suggestion you can make to “fix your Redis config?” I have zero experience with redis, Linux, Ruby, Rails, etc. If I followed the directions at Install Discourse on Windows for development should redis be working properly? Do I …

I can’t give you any more specifics because there are no specific details to work with. Given that there was a post on the topic you linked to yesterday saying the guide was “very very helpful”, I’m inclined to think the guide is probably OK, and it’s some variance in your execution of the instruct…

So I blew it all away and started from scratch. My mistake was running bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/techAPJ/install-rails/master/linux) as root, against the stated directions. Now I can get as far as trying to Restore my backup and get this in the logs: [2018-05-06 22:46:19]…

Off topic and just for personal curiosity, what forum are you migrating from @Cheeser ? You mentioned a .Net and C# background - the forum isn’t MVCForum is it? The scale of data your moving suggests its something different. I’m moving from MVCForum and am writing some migration code. I’m also new …

OK thanks @codinghorror – so the instructions I followed are not current, since it installs Postgres 9.5: Install Discourse on Windows for development The production Docker version (w/Postgres 10) apparently creates a backup script that is incompatible with Postgres 9.5 even though the same version…

Going to try that right now. I’ll report back, thank you for the tip!

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fefrei (Felix Freiberger) May 7, 2018, 9:38am 11

I’d just install Postgres 10 in the subsystem, there’s no reason why this shouldn’t work.

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