Recover from filesystem backup: can't rebuild nor start

Installation
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Server’s RAID died couple days back and we’re trying to bring back to life our Discourse instance from a filesystem backup. No luck so far.

I get this error message from ./launcher rebuild app:

FAILED
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Pups::ExecError: /root/upgrade_postgres failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 46 exit 1>
Location of failure: /pups/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:112:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params "/root/upgrade_postgres"

Its output claims that I should be able to just ./launcher start app, but it fails with:

+ /usr/bin/docker run --shm-size=512m -d --restart=always -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -e RAILS_ENV=production -e UNICORN_WORKERS=3 -e UNICORN_SIDEKIQS=1 -e RUBY_GLOBAL_METHOD_CACHE_SIZE=131072 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS=40000 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS=400000 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR=1.5 -e DISCOURSE_DB_SOCKET=/var/run/postgresql -e DISCOURSE_DB_HOST= -e DISCOURSE_DB_PORT= -e DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS=bravit111@gmail.com,ulysses4ever@gmail.com -e DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME=forum.mmcs.sfedu.ru -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS=class.mmcs.sfedu.ru -e DISCOURSE_ENABLE_CORS=true -e 'DISCOURSE_CORS_ORIGIN=*' -e DONT_PRECOMPILE_CSS=1 -h users-app -e DOCKER_HOST_IP=172.17.0.1 --name app -t -p 8088:80 -p 2222:22 -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/shared -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log:/var/log --mac-address 02:b1:c6:37:24:01 local_discourse/app /sbin/boot
Unable to find image 'local_discourse/app:latest' locally
docker: Error response from daemon: pull access denied for local_discourse/app, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied.
See 'docker run --help'.

Full output of both commands available here.

Just in case, my docker ps is empty.

I’m not sure how to proceed and will appreciate any help.

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Why don’t you use our official backup features and restore a backup file to a new server?

That is our supported recovery method and it’s documented at Create download and restore a backup of your Discourse database

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This method assumes you have a backup prepared by a running discourse instance. I don’t have one (anymore) :cry:

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Backups are enabled by default and saved on the host file system. If you have a file system backup you have the backup files in the backups folder…

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The backup feature doesn’t seem to have been enabled: I’m seeing only a couple of backup tarballs with rather old modification dates…

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I believe weekly backup is on by default in a normal Discourse install.

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I may end up using one of those but still I need a running instance and I keep getting those errors when trying to run it.

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It a lot easier to move the backup file to another server and follow Restore a backup from command line

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How do you mean “another sever”: I only have a single server.

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Okay, so let’s take a step back.

When you issue a rebuild, you end up with a error. Can you paste more than just 4 lines of error so we know exactly what is failing?

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You maybe missed it because I added the link to the full output only in an update to the top post:

Full output of both commands available here.

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Oh cool!

So

The source cluster was not shut down cleanly.

You will need to follow this

to start the database without the upgrade first, and then do the update afterwards.

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It worked, thanks a lot!

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