# Backup not working on development environment

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [March 20, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-not-working-on-development-environment/183849 "2021-03-20T05:56:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-not-working-on-development-environment/183849/3 "2021-03-20T11:12:53Z")

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What Gerhard said!.

And you can restore from the command line too.

./launcher enter app  
discourse enable\_restore  
discourse restore

The last command will print the available backup files (letting you know you really got it in the right place), then you can copy paste the one you want.

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