# Is there any way to restore your site from backup in the terminal?

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**Created:** [2016年四月11日 06:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-restore-your-site-from-backup-in-the-terminal/42377 "2016-04-11T06:31:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [2016年十二月20日 17:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-restore-your-site-from-backup-in-the-terminal/42377/9 "2016-12-20T17:03:00Z")

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It worked for me by first getting into the app

```
./launcher enter app

```

then

```
discourse enable_restore
discourse restore <filename.of.the.backup.tar.gz>
discourse disable_restore

```

Using the script/discourse didn’t work

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