Fix Discourse installation on Digital Ocean that broke during Docker update

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A big THANK YOU to @jericson for your help!

Here’s what we ended up doing:

  1. Gain recovery access to the old site
  2. Attach a network drive (Digital Ocean Volume Block Storage)
  3. Zip (make a tar ball) of the /var/discourse files
  4. Exfiltrate those files to the network drive
  5. Turn off the old server and detach the network drive
  6. Build a new Discourse org on a new server
  7. Connect the network drive
  8. Unzip the files
  9. Find a backup from the 7-day backup
  10. Restore to that point

We had attempted to just move the /var/discourse folder in totality over to the new server but ran into Redis issues (not sure those were the core issues, but that was what was flagged).

Grateful again for your help, Jon. Thank you!

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