# Finding UI generated backup and restoring site

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-ui-generated-backup-and-restoring-site/186202
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 9, 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: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-ui-generated-backup-and-restoring-site/186202/2 "2021-04-09T13:01:33Z")

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If your have your S3 configuration in the app.yml then your can just do a commend line restore and it’ll pull the backup from s3.  
Since you have your assets in S3, the backup contains only the database.

You should just be able to clone a new /var/discourse, copy your yml file, rebuild, and do the command line restore.

[Using Object Storage for Uploads (S3 & Clones)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-object-storage-for-uploads-s3-clones/148916)

[Restore a backup from command line](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-a-backup-from-command-line/108034)

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