I am trying to write a script with a cron that can automatically restore my backup from s3 weekly.
So it can run every sunday instead of me going in UI and restore it. (Our site’s restore takes a couple hour…)
Did anybody do anything similar?
Why do you need to restore so frequently?
Is your site corrupting on a weekly basis?
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This is for a test-site. So i can try experimenting settings/things.
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To check if the backups are actually ok? Did you know most people do not actually perform restore tests.
If I would do this, I would spin up a isolated docker container to restore the backup. This docker container would be destroyed after a successful restore. This new container would not be allowed to communicate to the outside world (e.g. not send any emails, not download new content, etc.).
Restoring a backup could be a simple docker exec with the commands
discourse enable_restore
discourse restore <backup>.tar.gz
But you need the same container image for the site to verify… So maybe a image rebuild after the restore? and then verify.
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docker exec app bash -c '$(discourse restore | grep discourse|head -1)'
will restore the latest backup. Then you’d just get chron to run it when you want.
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