Migrating Discourse from one DigitalOcean droplet to another without downtime

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

@mholt

Is there a direct way to restore from a backup

Restore a backup from command line

Here’s how to restore a Discourse backup from the command line, without ever booting the Discourse web UI. This is handy when you’re moving servers. Prerequisites Download the latest backup file from source Discourse instance. The destination discourse needs to be bootstrapped (run ./discourse-setup or copy your existing app.yml) Make sure that the destination Discourse instance is on the latest version. Update it if necessary. Transfer Backup SSH into the destination server, or otherwise c…

@mholt

disable the CSP until then?

SSH to your server, then:

cd /var/discourse
sudo ./launcher enter app
rails c
SiteSetting.content_security_policy = false
exit
exit

Note that I’d try the backup restore from CLI first - it solves the actual issue you have (restore a backup) vs the current roadblock (CSP).