Exporting and re-importing site_settings breaks discourse in many ways

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You’d need more detail for this to be a bug report. Is this a standard install?

That’s not surprising, and not recommended.

I don’t see that error in Discourse source. Is this a recent version?

Did you run it something like this?

rake site_settings:import < settings.yml

Here’s what it looked like when I ran it and restored it on the same site:

root@monstera-stagingdashboard:/var/www/discourse# rake site_settings:export >/tmp/settings.yml
root@monstera-stagingdashboard:/var/www/discourse# rake site_settings:import </tmp/settings.yml

starting import...


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I changed a few settings and ran it again and it worked.

I think that still works, though it’s harder to make work than the rake task is supposed to be.

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