# How to restore backup tar.gz file from console command?

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**Created:** [2016 年 5 月 28 日午前 10:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-backup-tar-gz-file-from-console-command/44940 "2016-05-28T10:54:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [2018 年 1 月 6 日午後 11:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-restore-backup-tar-gz-file-from-console-command/44940/8 "2018-01-06T23:49:50Z")

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I can confirm that from inside a production container you want to run `discourse restore`, not script/discourse.

Also, you can run it without the filename and it’ll suggest the available files, which makes it easy to copy and paste the filename.

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