# Restore Failed While Transfering

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-failed-while-transfering/153112
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-failed-while-transfering/153112 "2020-05-28T15:23:02Z")
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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-failed-while-transfering/153112/4 "2020-05-28T16:49:01Z")

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You shouldn’t be restoring another discourse instance in an already active discourse instance. That’s never going to happen that way. There are tools to merge two discourse instances together.

> [@Merge two Discourse sites into one](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-merge-two-discourse-sites/95435):
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> If you have two Discourse sites that you wish were one, this guide is for you. There’s a tool called [discourse\_merger](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/script/bulk_import/discourse_merger.rb) that can take one Discourse site and merge it into another. Prereqs This is not an easy task, and should be treated like any other migration to Discourse. You will not be running discourse\_merger on a live production site. You will perform the merge in another environment where you can review the output before moving the result to production. Copy vs Merge Almost everythin…

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