# Restore specific discourse backup version

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-specific-discourse-backup-version/380574
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** backups
**Created:** [August 27, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-specific-discourse-backup-version/380574 "2025-08-27T20:16:43Z")
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### Author: ![Sailormoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sailormoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sailormoon)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-specific-discourse-backup-version/380574/17 "2025-08-28T18:00:32Z")

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Thanks, it helped and forum is working (not properly, but I can access topics with contect).

However, forum without [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) is unusable, and I don’t exactly remember which plugins I installed. List of plugins should be in app.yml, but server is dead and I have only backup, which doesn’t contain app.yml, as I know. What should I do to restore forum and remove broken plugins?

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