# Can I retain my forum content if I change its original IP?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 26, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-retain-my-forum-content-if-i-change-its-original-ip/171445 "2020-11-26T21:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ElliSol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ellisol/32/158462_2.png) [@ElliSol](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ElliSol)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-retain-my-forum-content-if-i-change-its-original-ip/171445/1 "2020-11-26T21:29:00Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to change my forum’s original IP address and was told to do so through DigitalOcean by destroying my droplet and creating a new one from a snapshot. I am concerned that I am going to have to rebuild my forum from scratch so I would please like to know how to avoid that. Do I just create a backup then relaunch discourse from terminal using the new IP address and then restore from the backed up download?

Thank you!

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