# Starting Over with Old Database

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-over-with-old-database/63577>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2017 年 5 月 29 日午後 9:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-over-with-old-database/63577 "2017-05-29T21:10:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![jameshull](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jameshull/32/72977_2.png) [@jameshull](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jameshull)\
**Post date:** [2017 年 5 月 29 日午後 9:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/starting-over-with-old-database/63577/1 "2017-05-29T21:10:03Z")

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Hi there -

I’ve been running Discourse on DigitalOcean for the past two years. Just this week I tried to upgrade and every time I tried to do it from the control panel it would fail.

I tried SSH’ing in and doing it manually, but for some reason DO’s setup of Discourse–at least at the time I originally set it up–didn’t have the `var/discourse` directory. Regardless, now I’m getting 502 and I can’t get my application to start back up again. Running the logs app from the `/docker` directory I get `Could not find activesupport-4.2.8 in any of the sources`

What I would love to do is to start completely over - perhaps by installing with whatever new paradigm DO/Discourse has for 2017 BUT I want to be able to keep my old database - my years of posts, comments, etc.

Is there any resource or suggestion anyone would have about how to go about doing this? I would super appreciate it as I have a pretty big active community that is wondering what happened!

Thank you

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