# Trouble updating discourse after some time - UPGRADE OF POSTGRES FAILED

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 19, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-updating-discourse-after-some-time-upgrade-of-postgres-failed/389116 "2025-11-19T22:33:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![nickharambee1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nickharambee1/32/530393_2.png) [@nickharambee1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nickharambee1)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-updating-discourse-after-some-time-upgrade-of-postgres-failed/389116/3 "2025-11-20T16:27:15Z")

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Thanks for your reply Jay. OK, I have created a new VM and followed the steps in the article under **Prepare new VPS.** Now I am not sure what to do - do I continue to the steps under **Copy files to new VPS**? I wondering whether I’m doing a fresh install of discourse and then restoring the database from the old installation, or copying the discourse files over from the old installation? I’m thinking that if I just copy over the discourse files from the old VM then the issues might be replicated on the new VM, but probably I am misunderstanding something.

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