# Migration failed: relation "user\_required\_fields\_versions" already exists

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-failed-relation-user-required-fields-versions-already-exists/325378>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [September 6, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-failed-relation-user-required-fields-versions-already-exists/325378 "2024-09-06T21:16:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 7:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-failed-relation-user-required-fields-versions-already-exists/325378/15 "2024-09-08T07:03:23Z")

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> [@Clo](#):
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> I created a backup right before updating, but I didn’t download it to my local server before the site crashed so I’m concerned that I might have lost everything.

just to note, if you can reach a command line, perhaps to run ./launcher, then there will be a way to copy that backup down to the machine you’re sitting at. (But as you realise, taking, _and downloading_, a backup _before_ an update is the best plan.)

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