# מציאת גיבוי שנוצר על ידי ממשק משתמש ושחזור אתר

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-ui-generated-backup-and-restoring-site/186202>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [9 באפריל,‏ 2021,‏ 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-ui-generated-backup-and-restoring-site/186202 "2021-04-09T12:54:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![CJtheSiteWizard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cjthesitewizard/32/216442_2.png) [@CJtheSiteWizard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CJtheSiteWizard)\
**Post date:** [9 באפריל,‏ 2021,‏ 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-ui-generated-backup-and-restoring-site/186202/1 "2021-04-09T12:54:15Z")

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Hi Discourse,

Last night I was pushing through the Discourse upgrades and rebuilt the app, which resulted in a host of Postgres errors. I realized this was a result of the recent upgrade, but kept getting permission denied errors, among other things (and yes, I chowned everything to 700 so it wasn’t global). So I moved my original /var/discourse somewhere that was supposed to be temporary and reinstalled a fresh instance of Discourse to try and at least get postgres up to date.

Here’s where it gets fun. I had a backup of the site (DB only, uploads are saved to a different volume) generated by the UI from three days ago. Or at least, I thought I did. What I have now is a file called **wacky-writers-forum-2021-04-06-033906-v20210328233843.sql.gz** which I think I’ve learned is not, in fact, the tar.gz file the actual backup should be in.

I have everybody redirected to a landing page currently, and I’m hoping someone may be able to tell me that it is still possible to retrieve the actual .tar.gz file from the server from 3 days ago, and how, exactly I should go about doing that.

I have my backups and uploads saving to Digital Ocean block storage, and I still have the discourse folder from my old install that was functional, but moving/copying it back over to /var/discourse just breaks everything all over again, including throwing postgres errors. I’ve been working on this for 9 hours straight and I’m just about at my wits’ end. Can anybody help me, or at least try to point me in the right direction? 🙏 We just hit our 1k user mark and I would really really like to try and avoid losing all of that.

Edited to amend my upload setup.

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