# 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:** ![mholt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mholt/32/120935_2.png) [@mholt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mholt)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-discourse-from-one-digitalocean-droplet-to-another-without-downtime/174528/11 "2020-12-30T00:46:08Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Have you rub run an upgrade on the existing instance?

What’s rub run?

Upgrades on the existing instance keep having errors (different errors than this one) so that’s why I’m moving to a new instance.

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