I had a small discourse forum for a few years and it works well. I set up autobackups, but didn’t update discourse version for a long time. Server died, but I have backup. Backup is from the old discourse version, about a 2 years ago. When I’m trying to install the newest version and restore from b…

You can just access the themes from the admin interface. You can first disable them all and then turn them on one at a time (or whatever).

Restore specific discourse backup version

Sailormoon (Sailor) August 29, 2025, 9:54am 21

Thanks! It was a bug, caused by old day/night theme, which is built-in now. Your solution worked

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