# Migrating Discourse from one DigitalOcean droplet to another without downtime

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-discourse-from-one-digitalocean-droplet-to-another-without-downtime/174528>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [December 29, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-discourse-from-one-digitalocean-droplet-to-another-without-downtime/174528 "2020-12-29T19:49:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-discourse-from-one-digitalocean-droplet-to-another-without-downtime/174528/10 "2020-12-30T00:25:26Z")

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Looks like you have a corrupt index. Have you run an upgrade on the existing instance? There’s a chance that help.

There is a topic somewhere with instructions for copying over the raw database (and let’s encrypt) files from the old instance. That’s probably what I would do.

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