# Backup Failed error **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-error/365262 **Category:** Support **Created:** [May 8, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-error/365262 "2025-05-08T05:58:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Aniket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aniket/32/456890_2.png) [@Aniket](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aniket) #### Post date: [May 8, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-error/365262/4 "2025-05-08T10:15:37Z")
````plaintext [2025-05-08 03:32:20] 'system' has started the backup! [2025-05-08 03:32:20] Marking backup as running... [2025-05-08 03:32:20] Making sure '/var/www/discourse/tmp/backups/default/2025-05-08-033220' exists... [2025-05-08 03:32:20] Making sure '/var/www/discourse/public/backups/default' exists... [2025-05-08 03:32:20] Updating metadata... [2025-05-08 03:32:20] Dumping the public schema of the database... [2025-05-08 03:32:20] pg_dump: error: aborting because of server version mismatch [2025-05-08 03:32:20] pg_dump: detail: server version: 16.3; pg_dump version: 15.12 (Debian 15.12-1.pgdg120+1) [2025-05-08 03:32:20] EXCEPTION: pg_dump failed [2025-05-08 03:32:20] /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:173:in dump_public_schema``` ```` --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-error/365262)._