# PostgreSQL update wrecked my forum. Please help!

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**Created:** [October 23, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-update-wrecked-my-forum-please-help/206839 "2021-10-23T00:24:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![AtlasGames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@AtlasGames](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AtlasGames)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-update-wrecked-my-forum-please-help/206839/1 "2021-10-23T00:24:15Z")

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I wrecked my Discourse install at [forum.atlas-games.com](http://forum.atlas-games.com). I had to update to PostgreSQL 12 but only had 11GB free for my 7GB database and kept throwing errors, so I used used the “manual update” method here: [PostgreSQL 12 update](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-12-update/151236)

All seemed to work well (no errors), but now my site is reset to default and wants to me to re-register and set it up from scratch … no posts, no users, no settings. I know I have backups … we pay the $2/mo for Digital Ocean to take weekly backups (looks like they’re 3 days old, though), and the forum’s own internal backups seem to be accessible (4 days old), but I’m hoping I didn’t actually lose my data and there’s a way to reassociate it. I ran “./launcher cleanup” though.

Thanks for any help.

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