# Restoring a snapshotted instance

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-a-snapshotted-instance/263019>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 27, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-a-snapshotted-instance/263019 "2023-04-27T02:09:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-a-snapshotted-instance/263019/2 "2023-04-27T02:09:46Z")

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Assuming this is a [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) and uses /var/discourse rather than a third party package which we can’t support here, there’s either an issue with the original snapshot, or how it was restored. I do this pretty regularly and have never had a folder vanish.

Either way it’s a question for Digital Ocean support, it relates to your VPS and their snapshotting, not Discourse.

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