Can't upload backup - run out of disk space

This issue remains not solved, but here’s my workaround for getting the Discourse backup into the VM.

  1. [Get your VM up: Start Github, open Git shell, vagrant up, vagrant ssh]
  2. Start Filezilla on your host.
  3. Connect to 127.0.0.1:2222 via SFTP with username: vagrant and password: vagrant
  4. Copy the Discourse backup to /vagrant/public/backups/default
  5. Back in the Git shell, start the rails instance bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0
  6. In browser http://localhost:4000/admin/backups see your backup listed.
  7. Click restore (assuming in Discourse Settings, “allow restore” is checked)

After successfully uploading and restoring my backup, here’s a df -Pk