Discourse is not working, how do I back up my data using terminal?

[image] Backup discourse from the command line Self-Hosting bookmark This guide covers how to back up and restore your Discourse site using command line tools, specifically designed for self-hosted environments. person_raising_hand Required user level: Adminis…

It’s not clear what you’re asking. If you want your discourse data then your best bet is to make it work and make a backup. You can also use a tool like rsync to copy /var/discourse/shared/standalone somewhere, but then what do you plan to do with that? Or maybe you want your most recent backup f…

I encountered an error in Discourse and I can’t solve it. I plan to reinstall discourse by copying all my data.

And strangely, no one in the huge support forum helped me properly solve the problem.

Can you please explain what happened before the error and post the error messages? It may be possible to fix your instance. edit: Looks like a few people did try to help you, including one of our team members: [image] I can't start a Discourse Self-hosting f…

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Lilly (Lillian ) December 10, 2023, 5:28pm 2

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