# Failed when using backups to restore **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Tags:** backups\ **Created:** [December 14, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-when-using-backups-to-restore/248913 "2022-12-14T13:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![mikeguo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mikeguo/32/278830_2.png) [@mikeguo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikeguo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-when-using-backups-to-restore/248913/1 "2022-12-14T13:59:16Z")
To avoid loss of data, before importing data completely by script, I make production instance backup, download it to local, and try to restore it in local temporary instance, however failed. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/a/0/3a095627ee9eb5a17863f624d6a9fdc4ac4211da.png) And logs as below ```plaintext [2022-12-14 21:58:40] 'm11' has started the restore! [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Marking restore as running... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Making sure /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2022-12-14-135840 exists... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Copying archive to tmp directory... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Unzipping archive, this may take a while... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Extracting dump file... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Validating metadata... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Current version: 20221205225450 [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Restored version: 20221212234948 [2022-12-14 21:58:40] EXCEPTION: You're trying to restore a more recent version of the schema. You should migrate first! [2022-12-14 21:58:40] /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/lib/backup_restore/meta_data_handler.rb:31:in `validate' /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb:112:in `validate_backup_metadata' /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb:43:in `run' /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:23:in `restore' /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:36:in `block in
' /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in `fork' /Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/script/spawn_backup_restore.rb:4:in `
' [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Trying to rollback... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] There was no need to rollback [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Cleaning stuff up... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Removing tmp '/Users/mike/otherprojects/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2022-12-14-135840' directory... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Marking restore as finished... [2022-12-14 21:58:40] Notifying 'm11' of the end of the restore... [2022-12-14 21:58:42] Finished! ``` --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-when-using-backups-to-restore/248913)._