# Error: Can't notify admin while restoring backup during a migration to a fresh install

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-cant-notify-admin-while-restoring-backup-during-a-migration-to-a-fresh-install/139606>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [January 24, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-cant-notify-admin-while-restoring-backup-during-a-migration-to-a-fresh-install/139606 "2020-01-24T07:09:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pad\_Pors](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pad_pors/32/52016_2.png) [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-cant-notify-admin-while-restoring-backup-during-a-migration-to-a-fresh-install/139606/1 "2020-01-24T07:09:17Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-your-discourse-instance-to-a-different-server/15721):

after installing discourse on a new server, registering a new admin (with the same username as the old admin), and restoring backups, everything goes well till the end, and then I got this error:

`[2020-01-24 07:06:47] Notifying 'padpors' of the end of the restore... [2020-01-24 07:06:47] Something went wrong while notifying user. `

as a result the backup can not be restored.

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