# Can't restore a 20GB backup on a 60GB Digital Ocean instance (fresh Discourse install)

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**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 2:49am 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:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 3:08am 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")

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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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