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 backup, it doesn’t work. When I’m trying to install old version, it isn’t possible: setup script automatically pulls new commits and latest docker image, I even found these lines in launcher script and deleted, but some internal code in docker image also checks and updates git to latest version.
What should I do? How can I run old discourse version or restore old backup on a new version?
If you want help, you’ll need to be more specific. It should work. There’s a good chance that the issue will also not work if you were able to install the same version of Discourse that you had then.
What was the error you got when you tried to restore?
There is no critical errors in ./launcher logs app output, but forum doesn’t work. Almost all buttons doesn’t work, there is no topics, and html is looking strange (buggy start page repeats itself and can be scrolled to the bottom without limit).
I’m not professional tech guy, and I hope you can tell me which logs I can add to my report where can I find them.