wenqin encountered issues after updating their Discourse forum, making it unusable. They seek guidance on reinstalling Discourse while preserving their data. They mention that Discourse automatically saves backups and ask where to find these in case of a worst-case scenario. NateDhaliwal provides instructions on how to restore the forum using command-line backups, referencing the default backup location and commands to initiate a backup.
My forum update ran into problems and is now unusable. I would like to know how I can reinstall Discourse while exporting and re-importing my previous data.
It seems that Discourse is set by default to periodically save forum backups. In the worst-case scenario, where can I find and export these system default backups?
Of course, if the issue can be directly resolved without reinstalling, that would be even better.
For context, here is what I did:
From the admin panel, I clicked “Update Docker”.
Then I upgraded the forum via command-line.
After the update completed, the forum stopped working.
I have attached the error log in this thread for reference.