# Can't restore a 20GB backup on a 60GB Digital Ocean instance (fresh Discourse install)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [6 Janeiro , 2018 02:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350 "2018-01-06T02:49:09Z")
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [6 Janeiro , 2018 02:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350/1 "2018-01-06T02:49:10Z")
So, I have a ~20GB backup.
When I try to restore it in a fresh Discourse install on a 60GB DigitalOcean droplet, the UI freezes, and it ends up with the following situation:
```plaintext
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev
tmpfs 396M 26M 370M 7% /run
/dev/vda1 58G 58G 0 100% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vda15 105M 3.4M 102M 4% /boot/efi
/dev/sda1 246G 25G 209G 11% /mnt/volume-fra1-01-part1
overlay 58G 58G 0 100% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/1b169d3fb316ed26072c13336a9b260add686b548d856f4765560637907b4efd/merged
shm 64M 4.0K 64M 1% /var/lib/docker/containers/37cfaddc5a5466550d7e0471b16b70a5a7b0659dfb7f3e8753dabb0b6d885127/shm
tmpfs 396M 0 396M 0% /run/user/0
```
The UI stuck at “CREATE INDEX…”.
**My guess:**
I remember Discourse first copying the backup file to the guest’s `/tmp`, then unzipping it, which literally means +20GB +20GB = +40GB files
Should not the backup file be unzipped somewhere in the backups folder directly (without copying to `/tmp`), as the backups folder can be mounted to a bigger drive. Also, what is the idea behind copying the backup file before unzipping it?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6 Janeiro , 2018 03:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350/2 "2018-01-06T03:08:31Z")
Maybe you should try a database only backup, then you can copy all the images over in a different manual step? Since most of the size in the backup is the images.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [6 Janeiro , 2018 22:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350/3 "2018-01-06T22:45:04Z")
> [@meglio](#):
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> The UI stuck at “CREATE INDEX…”.
I would first follow @codinghorror recommendation here and do a restore of database only and copy files by hand.
Additionally, for meta when I restored it sat for about **30 minutes** on `CREATE INDEX`, you are just going to have to wait it out. To speed it up somewhat you could increase: `db_shared_buffers` per:
>
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [7 Janeiro , 2018 01:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350/4 "2018-01-07T01:43:24Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> I would first follow @codinghorror recommendation here and do a restore of database only and copy files by hand.
Did so and it worked. Thanks Jeff and Sam for your input.
> [@sam](#):
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> Additionally, for meta when I restored it sat for about 30 minutes on CREATE INDEX, you are just going to have to wait it out.
Yep, I realise, but it wasn’t the case. The disk got full 100% – I think because of the manipulation with the backup file (copying, then unzipping, so effectively tripling the original backup size).
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### Author:  [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [7 Janeiro , 2018 07:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350/5 "2018-01-07T07:53:08Z")
Alternative solution would have been increase your droplet size temporarily, scaling back when the job is done.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [8 Junho , 2024 12:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-restore-a-20gb-backup-on-a-60gb-digital-ocean-instance-fresh-discourse-install/77350/6 "2024-06-08T12:43:35Z")
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