My suggestion is to setup the latest version of Discourse on a staging server and restore the DB of that staging server Discourse instance with a full backup (including uploads) from your current production version.
Then, you can test that staging instance first in a safe staging environment and see how it works.
That’s what we do.
Hope this helps.
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