# Pause images optimization upon restore to new instance of server

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pause-images-optimization-upon-restore-to-new-instance-of-server/386739
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 25, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pause-images-optimization-upon-restore-to-new-instance-of-server/386739 "2025-10-25T20:11:13Z")
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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: [October 26, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pause-images-optimization-upon-restore-to-new-instance-of-server/386739/4 "2025-10-26T20:21:28Z")

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What I would do is follow the [Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-a-discourse-site-to-another-vps-with-rsync/43812) except don’t copy over the postgres files.

Then do a database-only backup and restore that. You’ll rsync over the backup as well and restore from the command line.

Is this a very old version, I guess? Did the restore appear to complete successfully?

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