# \[SOLVED\] Setting up a cloned install
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [2015年五月2日 07:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224 "2015-05-02T07:15:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Bahlsen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bahlsen)
#### Post date: [2015年五月2日 07:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/1 "2015-05-02T07:15:14Z")
Hi
I have a cloned forum, which I need to do some setup on. My attempts so far has only resultet in grief and tears. If you are a seasoned Discourse sys-admin, and can fix this, please PM me.
Thanks
My problem is described here
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-verification-not-working-in-a-cloned-forum/28203](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-verification-not-working-in-a-cloned-forum/28203)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015年五月2日 09:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/2 "2015-05-02T09:41:41Z")
Why doesn’t Admin, Backups work?
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### Author:  [@Bahlsen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bahlsen)
#### Post date: [2015年五月2日 10:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/3 "2015-05-02T10:00:26Z")
Because of this issue
[http://meta-originpull.discourse.org/t/sql-error-during-import/27793](http://meta-originpull.discourse.org/t/sql-error-during-import/27793)
May I should add, that I have tried this on a 100% clean install, with matching version numbers.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015年五月2日 10:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/4 "2015-05-02T10:09:29Z")
We should fix that, its a bug.
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### Author:  [@Bahlsen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bahlsen)
#### Post date: [2015年五月2日 10:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/5 "2015-05-02T10:12:01Z")
So no chance of getting this to work from a snapshot?
Edit:
Seems I hit a limit of 8 mails in 8 hours …
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### Author:  [@Bahlsen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bahlsen)
#### Post date: [2015年五月2日 21:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/6 "2015-05-02T21:14:20Z")
For now, just disregard my impatience 🙂
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### Author:  [@Bahlsen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bahlsen)
#### Post date: [2015年五月3日 07:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/7 "2015-05-03T07:36:16Z")
Unfortunately, the bug @sam mentioned still causes this.
```
[2015-05-03 07:30:42] CREATE INDEX
[2015-05-03 07:30:43] CREATE INDEX
[2015-05-03 07:30:44] psql:/var/www/discourse/tmp/restores/default/2015-05-03-072756/dump.sql:3864981: ERROR: could not create unique index "post_timings_unique"
[2015-05-03 07:30:44] DETAIL: Key (topic_id, post_number, user_id)=(13868, 7, 6580) is duplicated.
[2015-05-03 07:30:44] EXCEPTION: psql failed
[2015-05-03 07:30:44] /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb:217:in `restore_dump'
/var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/restorer.rb:38:in `run'
/var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_restore.rb:161:in `block in start!'
/var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_restore.rb:158:in `fork'
/var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_restore.rb:158:in `start!'
/var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backup_restore.rb:17:in `restore!'
/var/www/discourse/app/controllers/admin/backups_controller.rb:74:in `restore'
```
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### Author:  [@Bahlsen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bahlsen)
#### Post date: [2015年五月3日 16:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/8 "2015-05-03T16:55:50Z")
Thanks to @elberet for helping me get the backup to work.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2015年五月3日 17:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/solved-setting-up-a-cloned-install/28224/9 "2015-05-03T17:17:18Z")