# 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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### 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: [April 9, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-ui-generated-backup-and-restoring-site/186202/3 "2021-04-09T13:08:18Z")
> [@pfaffman](#): > > 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. I guess I’m using the wrong term for how my backups/uploads are set up. I used this method: [Move Uploads and Backups to DigitalOcean Block Storage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-uploads-and-backups-to-digitalocean-block-storage/89274) I’ll amend that and say my uploads and backups aren’t local to the main discourse folder (it’s partially how this all got started, I was working on trying to move us to DigitalOcean Spaces). So, no, unfortunately, I don’t have any of the S3 configurations done since I was just saving it to mounted storage. The backups were being saved in mnt/my\_storage/shared/standalone, but when I go to look for backups in there, all I have is the **wacky-writers-forum-2021-04-06-033906-v20210328233843.sql.gz** file. I did actually try to restore from that for lack of a better idea (which was probably wrong), but I got a permission denied error. I’m sure it’s something to do with how those backups are actually generated. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/finding-ui-generated-backup-and-restoring-site/186202)._