Hi! I’ve just installed Discourse on a new server and now I’m trying to upload a backup with about 400MB. It stucks at 40% with the following error: Slow down, too many requests from this IP address. Please retry again in 2 seconds. Error code: ip_10_secs_limit. What is this and how can I solve it?

[image] JammyDodger: That I am not sure of. :slightly_smiling_face: Did you run ./launcher discourse-setup on your new instance? Yes, of course. Or shouldn’t I do this to restore? Or do you mean after the restore?

I thought that may fill in some of the missing pieces, but I’m not sure. It may be worth taking the back-up file and restoring it to a fresh discourse with an updated app.yml, and seeing if that’s any better.

It was a fresh install on a new server, and I thought the app.yml is in the backup but I was wrong. I have no access to the “old” discourse instance so there’s no way to restore the app.yml file as it seems.

You can edit the existing app.yml to add the things you think it might be missing? I’m not sure what would stop categories or logins being copied over though? Did you restore a full back-up file? The one in the OP stalled out at 40%. If you restored that version it may explain why half your stuff is missing? I’m just guessing at this point though. :slightly_smiling_face: Sorry I couldn’t be more help.

Sorry you’ve have such trouble. I can’t explain how it might have happened. [image] daemon: I could restore the backup with discourse restore , but some categories are missing, the whole header is missing, I can’t login I cannot imagine a way that a backup would restore only some categories. If only some categories are restored then that’s what is in the backup you took. Perhaps you have an old backup. [image] daemon: the app.yml is still the same as a fresh install The app.yml doesn’t have anything to do with your data, just the hostname and other stuff required to set up Discourse. You can restore any database to any site.

I will reinstall Discourse again (with a fresh server image) and will try to restore the backup again. The 40% stucking was with the upload in Discourse directly, after that I copied the backup via SCP to the server. [image] pfaffman: The app.yml doesn’t have anything to do with your data, just the hostname and other stuff required to set up Discourse. You can restore any database to any site. Yes, that’s true, but I thought something important will be saved in the backup too. Now I don’t know which plugins I had installed in the old instance and how the settings were from the them. The backup was from 6th December this year, so only a few days ago.

[image] daemon: Now I don’t know which plugins I had installed in the old instance and how the settings were from the them. That is frustrating. The good news is that the settings are in the database, so if you install the plugin it’ll get the settings.

I just reinstalled the server and Discourse and restored the backup. If everything else is ok I can figure out which plugins I had installed.

I had to reinstall everything again because I ran into some problems. Do I need to finish the setup and activate my new account? Or can I just wait to build Discourse the first time with ./discourse-setup and restore the backup directly? After restoring the backup it seems that everything is ok (except the missing plugins). I don’t use the default theme but in the other theme the header is missing (after the backup was restored) so I can’t login. I tried to set in the Rails console the default theme Path of theme components - #16 by Osama but after that the site won’t load anymore. How can I set my account to the default theme so I can lgin again?

You should be able to login using the [YourSite]/u/admin-login link :+1: (and then swop your themes around using the admin panel as normal)

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JammyDodger December 22, 2021, 5:00pm 32

That will be the ‘disable emails’ setting:

Restored from backup, but email disabled?

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