# HELP! My Discourse just deleted everything?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 15, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292 "2019-02-15T23:21:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![guiqis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/guiqis/32/129006_2.png) [@guiqis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guiqis)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292/1 "2019-02-15T23:21:16Z")

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I’ve updated discourse via the admin panel but I saw a blank page after upgrading. I enter here and saw someone saying that I could Rebuild it to fix the issue. But after the rebuild I just saw a “Welcome to discourse” message as it was my first time using it.

How can I get all my infos back?

I’m using discourse droplet in digital ocean!

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### Author: ![notriddle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/notriddle/32/133055_2.png) [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292/2 "2019-02-15T23:39:59Z")

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Are there any files in `/var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default/`?

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### Author: ![guiqis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/guiqis/32/129006_2.png) [@guiqis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guiqis)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292/3 "2019-02-15T23:45:56Z")

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Yes! There are 5 .tar.gz files

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### Author: ![notriddle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/notriddle/32/133055_2.png) [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2019, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292/4 "2019-02-16T00:49:20Z")

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Cool. Then you can [restore the latest one](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-a-backup-from-command-line/108034).

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292/5 "2022-03-10T09:34:44Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2022, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-my-discourse-just-deleted-everything/109292/6 "2022-04-09T09:35:05Z")

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