# Restoring Discourse when you can't make a backup

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-discourse-when-you-cant-make-a-backup/89988>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [6월 15, 2018, 6:59오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-discourse-when-you-cant-make-a-backup/89988 "2018-06-15T18:59:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![samnazarko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/samnazarko/32/109010_2.png) [@samnazarko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/samnazarko)\
**Post date:** [6월 15, 2018, 9:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restoring-discourse-when-you-cant-make-a-backup/89988/4 "2018-06-15T21:57:48Z")

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Thank you very much for this advice.

I wasn’t able to take a tarball based backup, and the backups I had were several hours old, hence the need to restore the Postgres DB.

Sam

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