# Restroring problems

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/restroring-problems/151369>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restroring-problems/151369 "2020-05-13T19:21:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restroring-problems/151369/8 "2020-05-14T12:43:15Z")

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> [@pihentagy](#):
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> Oddly it is not visible from the host filesystem. Should it?

Well, usually `/var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups` is the directory that is visible in your container as `/var/www/discourse/public/backups` (hence the word `shared`). Your rsync command is putting the backup inside that directory in order to make it accessible from within the container.

Vice versa, if the container writes to `public/backups` it should be visible on your host in the shared directory.

I wrote `/var/discourse/shared....` above. But it seems that you are working in `~/infra/discourse`, so you are copying to `~/infra/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default`.

Usually the container is mapped to `/var/discourse/shared/...`

This might be the issue. Can you check if you have a `/var/discourse/shared` ?

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