# Regarding update and upgrade issues after deploying Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/392972>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 8, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/392972 "2026-01-08T14:06:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![sniper756](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sniper756/32/545002_2.png) [@sniper756](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sniper756)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/392972/3 "2026-01-08T16:05:01Z")

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Once, after upgrading through the backend administrator panel, image attachments went missing, and I only managed to recover them through `recover`. I don’t know the reason why, so since then, I have only used `rebuild` for updates and upgrades.

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