I chose to move our site to a new host, and restored from backup after setting up a new DO droplet w 2gb ram and doing a stock install. I didn’t see any errors, and didn’t think to check all the images before shutting down the host. As it turns out, images were missing and no amount of rebaking wo…

Upgrade to the latest version of Discourse and run the task rake posts:missing_uploads again. The task itself will try to recover the missing old scheme uploads from local “uploads” and “tombstone” directories. At the end it will display the count of the uploads which are not found both in database …

I know @tgxworld has worked on this a lot recently, maybe he can advise?

ok.. this is what I got # ./launcher enter app root@community-2019-app:/var/www/discourse# rake posts:missing_uploads xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.......x..x.....xx..................... 105 post uploads are missing. 103 uploads are missing. 100 of 103 are old…

Can you check if the files are in the tombstone of the previous host? That or a previous backup will be our only hope of recovering the images.

The old host is gone, I’ve uploaded folders from the numbered folders from /default, but not everything. What other folders should be checked?

Do you have numbered folders from the tombstone folder?

Here’s a cropped screenshot of what I see [2019-04-23_15-32-43]

I know @vinothkannans is working on something that will recover the missing posts to uploads link. He’ll let you know here when it is ready.

Thanks, seems like a lot of progress :/var/www/discourse# rake posts:missing_uploads .............................................................................x.....xx..................... 3 post uploads are missing. 3 uploads are missing. 3 of 2965 posts are affected. I’d be interested to kn…

If you run the below command in rails console then you can get the list of missing uploads. PostCustomField.where(name: Post::MISSING_UPLOADS)

How to find any missing images?

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tgxworld (Alan Tan) April 23, 2019, 4:16am 3

Try running

./launcher enter app
rake posts:missing_uploads
rake uploads:missing

Broken images move to tombstone

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How to find any missing images?

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