Upgrade container - keeping config and data

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@tschloss

Sorry, I don‘t know what you meant with your question „Did you enter the three commands…“

Did you click the link in the first reply that says “How do I manually update Discourse and docker image to latest”? It includes this:

@sam

Every two months we recommend SSH’ing into your web server (using putty or your favorite SSH client) and doing

cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app

Especially if the upgrade page doesn’t show up or you have any issues when trying to upgrade.

So those are the commands that you use to upgrade. You won’t lose anything.

But if it was two years ago, it’s a bit more complicated because the database needs to get upgraded too, so you’ll want to have a look at PostgreSQL 13 update. (But usually, you just rebuild twice and it works.)