# Restoring Backup, 'Email Protected' and can't receive emails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-backup-email-protected-and-cant-receive-emails/224663>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 18, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-backup-email-protected-and-cant-receive-emails/224663 "2022-04-18T22:54:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ethhaqn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ethhaqn/32/257051_2.png) [@ethhaqn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ethhaqn)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-backup-email-protected-and-cant-receive-emails/224663/1 "2022-04-18T22:54:59Z")

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So I created a backup of Discourse on my old VPS (I’ve now done a fresh reinstall). I tried running `discourse enable_restore` and `discourse restore [file]` as recommended [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-discourse-from-the-command-line/64364), however I keep receiving back `discourse: command not found`.

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So instead, I planned to do an install, register and restore Discourse via the admin panel. I did an install following [these](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-other-websites-on-the-same-machine-as-discourse/17247/257) instructions. All went well. The next issue was that when registering, the email is provided is protected because apparently I don’t have JavaScript enabled? I can confirm that I do, however.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/4/6/5467e2ce6f511bcd0472baca3419dd98a10c67bf.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/a/8/9a8f9f69d7f45041ba700ec46806cb935b18a396.png)

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/2/8/2287a3f13c373eb5a28e4d35069061bc39378e0c.png)

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My final issue is that I don’t actually receive the registration email and it isn’t in my spam. It should work since I’ve tested it with [Oops - that's an error! - GMass](https://www.gmass.co/smtp-test:)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/e/6/2e60cc5db72a30229038371eeab9a141e3f3ec27.png)

Here are my SMTP settings:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/f/0/ff095bf2b2446721339249baeb8f677ced70c6a1.png)

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Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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