Avatars lost after restore. How to get them back?

[Iceman]

Following this saga:

Improving Instance Performance (Megatopics, Database Size and Extreme Load)

Hi Discourse Community! Recently I have been trying to improve the performance of my Discourse installation and clean up a little since my site has been growing exponentially lately. I have identified two issues, searched about them here but I don’t see a clear answer for some specifics, so I hope that this doesn’t represent much of a bother to anyone. The first issue I have is the DB Size, which is pretty big. I’m running a 4GB Mem/80GB Disk instance on Digital Ocean and the DB is choking t…

https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-12-update/151236/193

I tried the “backup & restore on a different discourse instance” method and now I’m facing this. Tried every trick in the book (the Sidekiq Job, the Rebake)… is there a “lead” on what may be causing this? Just for me to try to find out something.

(One thing I have to give you all, with all this I’m moving from “yeah I kind of get this” to PostGreSQL PhD, Redis PhD,… Just need to get the hang of Ruby and local dev envs and I may turn useful to the Community )