# Moving to New Server woes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-new-server-woes/356493
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 9, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-new-server-woes/356493 "2025-03-09T14:42:55Z")
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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: [March 10, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-to-new-server-woes/356493/14 "2025-03-10T01:53:06Z")

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See [Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-a-discourse-site-to-another-vps-with-rsync/43812)

But if you don’t copy the database and instead make a backup on the old server and restore it to the new one you won’t next to have two copies of it.

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