I am trying to migrate my discource instance to new server, Since I am limited whit space on server I want first to How i can pause image optimization after initial upload db and restore it. So I can check did restore pass well and delete backup file and delete. My backup file is about 200GB whit…

Thanks for helping. [图片] pfaffman: If you need more space you need more space. Yes but for straightforward restore using web gui and expected procedure you need +4x free size of your backup file. Here is how: Upload backup file (or rsync into /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/defau…

If you need more space you need more space. But maybe you want to rsync the images and restore only database. That way you don’t have two copies of all of the uploads (and don’t have to make thumbnails again.

Thanks for trying to help. I did try it, but I was now quite sure why my restore did not went good. My main problem is that my old instance has stacked on PostgreSQL version 12 I did not find way to upgrade it, and try to move to new fresh instance. Do you know is possible to restore only databa…

What I would do is follow the Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync 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 app…

That’s some solution! If anyone else finds this, I think that doing a database-only restore would have worked and been a bit easier, but glad you got it worked out!

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 2025 年10 月 27 日 14:49 6

这真是一个了不起的解决方案！如果其他人遇到这个问题，我认为只进行数据库还原会更简单一些，但很高兴你解决了问题！

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