Any other way to take backup and restore?

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Backup and Restore in Discourse Forum

There are alternative methods to backup and restore a Discourse forum besides using the admin panel. gerhard suggests using a script to backup and restore:

discourse backup <optional filename>
discourse restore filename

This script offers additional commands for managing backups and restores:

discourse help [COMMAND]
discourse export
discourse export_category
discourse export_topics
discourse import
discourse import_category
discourse import_topics

For a step-by-step guide, justin recommends checking out the How-to on restoring a backup from the CLI.

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hi,

is there any other way (except this admin → settings → backup or Restore) to take backup and restore in our discourse forum. like from coding part and any other best way.

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You can backup and restore with a script:

# enter the Docker container
/var/discourse/launcher enter app

discourse backup <optional filename>
discourse restore filename

You can do even more with that script:

Commands:
  discourse backup            # Backup a discourse forum
  discourse disable_readonly  # Disable the readonly mode
  discourse disable_restore   # Forbid restore operations
  discourse enable_readonly   # Enable the readonly mode
  discourse enable_restore    # Allow restore operations
  discourse export            # Backup a Discourse forum
  discourse export_category   # Export a category, all its topics, and all users who posted in those topics
  discourse export_topics     # Export topics and all users who posted in that topic. Accepts multiple topic id's
  discourse help [COMMAND]    # Describe available commands or one specific command
  discourse import            # Restore a Discourse backup
  discourse import_category   # Import a category, its topics and the users from the output of the export_category co...
  discourse import_topics     # Import topics and their users from the output of the export_topic command
  discourse remap             # Remap a string sequence accross all tables
  discourse request_refresh   # Ask all clients to refresh the browser
  discourse restore           # Restore a Discourse backup
  discourse rollback          # Rollback to the previous working state

Options:
  v, [--verbose=VERBOSE]
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We have a nice howto on restoring a backup from the CLI.