I followed the tutorial exact and everything was in that location, I’ve now started again.
Here is what I have done:
Followed this guide here: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub
Uploaded my backup via SSH to backups/default
Created a snapshot of this point so I can revert if anything goes wrong
I have a volume mounted at /mnt/ ready for a move, when I moved the directories last time I found the following problems:
- Backup didn’t save to the new volume backup folder (actually couldn’t find it at all)
- Image uploads just errored out, I’m assuming because they couldn’t upload to the new volume for whatever reason
Were uploads and backups tested with this tutorial here @techAPJ Move Uploads and Backups to DigitalOcean Block Storage
On top of all this, I am having to wait for letsencrypt, I believe this takes a week as I didn’t realise a rebuild would try to get a new certificate each and every time, so I have exhausted my trys, I can not access the site at all until I have the SSL certs, http works for a minute but then it is forced to https meaning I can not register
I used these commands as the tutorial stated:
mv /var/discourse/shared/standalone/postgres_data /var/postgres_data_discourse
mv /var/discourse/shared /mnt/volume_lon1_01