# Hangs during upgrade

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hangs-during-upgrade/52364
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hangs-during-upgrade/52364 "2016-11-02T11:04:27Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hangs-during-upgrade/52364/2 "2016-11-02T11:15:56Z")

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This also happened to me. I think it _might_ be related to our backup issue (cc. @sam)

> [@Discourse failed to backup, how to debug?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-failed-to-backup-how-to-debug/52217):
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> Hi, My discourse keeps failing backup for the last 2 days Here is the backup logs: [2016-10-29 22:58:43] Making sure ‘/var/www/discourse/tmp/backups/default/2016-10-29-225843’ exists… [2016-10-29 22:58:43] Backup process was cancelled! [2016-10-29 22:58:43] Notifying ‘ltd’ of the end of the backup… The directory /var/www/discourse/tmp/backups/default/2016-10-29-225843 exists At the parent directory, I found 5 empty directories. I guess 4 are created manually and 1 automatically created. …

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