Hi all. I’m having issues with restoring a backup to my discourse server. I attempted to post the log file but it won’t allow new users to upload files and when K attempt to post the code in this thread it says it’s 400k lines and only 100k are allowed. Any help would be appreciated!

This sounds like the problem mentioned in Can't restore a backup if it includes link to Discourse onebox :anxious_face_with_sweat: You should be able to fix this during the restore, but you need to do it on the shell. cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app # start the restore with the --pause arg…

If you can’t post it all you’ll need to try to guess what the salient part is, probably at the end.

-- execute("WITH remaps AS (\n SELECT from_icon, to_icon FROM (VALUES ('adjust', 'circle-half-stroke'), ('air-freshener', 'spray-can-sparkles'), ('alien-monster', 'alien-8bit'), ('allergies', 'hand-dots'), ('ambulance', 'truck-medical'), ('american-sign-language-interpreting', 'hands-asl-interpreti…

I can post it in pieces I guess if that doesn’t help.

2025-03-19 02:09:05] [STARTED] [2025-03-19 02:09:05] 'Admin' has started the restore! [2025-03-19 02:09:05] Marking restore as running... [2025-03-19 02:09:05] Making sure /var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2025-03-19-020905 exists... [2025-03-19 02:09:05] Copying archive to tmp directory... [2…

[2025-03-19 02:09:31] Migrating the database... [2025-03-19 02:09:40] == 20190601000001 CreateAutomationsTable: migrating =========================== -- create_table(:discourse_automation_automations) -> 0.0091s -- create_table(:discourse_automation_fields) -> 0.0061s -- create_table(:discours…

== 20210915222124 DropReminderTypeIndexForBookmarks: migrating ================ -- index_exists?(:bookmarks, [:reminder_type]) -> 0.0083s -- remove_index(:bookmarks, [:reminder_type]) -> 0.0079s == 20210915222124 DropReminderTypeIndexForBookmarks: migrated (0.0184s) ======= == 20210920044353 …

== 20220617151846 RenameDefaultCategoriesRegularSetting: migrating ============ -- execute("UPDATE site_settings\nSET name = 'default_categories_normal'\nWHERE name = 'default_categories_regular'\n") -> 0.0002s == 20220617151846 RenameDefaultCategoriesRegularSetting: migrated (0.0005s) === == 20…

== 20240714231226 DuplicateFlagsCustomTypeToRequireMessage: migrating ========= -- add_column(:flags, :require_message, :boolean, {:default=>false, :null=>false}) -> 0.0007s == 20240714231226 DuplicateFlagsCustomTypeToRequireMessage: migrated (0.0012s) == 20240714231516 DropCustomTypeFromFlags:…

-- execute("WITH remaps AS (\n SELECT from_icon, to_icon FROM (VALUES ('adjust', 'circle-half-stroke'), ('air-freshener', 'spray-can-sparkles'), ('alien-monster', 'alien-8bit'), ('allergies', 'hand-dots'), ('ambulance', 'truck-medical'), ('american-sign-language-interpreting', 'hands-asl-interpreti…

snowboarding'), ('snowmobile', 'person-snowmobiling'), ('sort-alpha-down', 'arrow-down-a-z'), ('sort-alpha-down-alt', 'arrow-down-z-a'), ('sort-alpha-up', 'arrow-up-a-z'), ('sort-alpha-up-alt', 'arrow-up-z-a'), ('sort-alt', 'arrow-down-arrow-up'), ('sort-amount-down', 'arrow-down-wide-short'), ('sor…

Issues with restoring backup to discourse

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 19, 2025, 10:32pm 15

This is the issue. You need to find the upload that isn’t on s3, I think.

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Issues with restoring backup to discourse

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