# Upgrade failed due to unclean database shutdown

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-unclean-database-shutdown/54414
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [2016 年 12 月 17 日午前 9:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-unclean-database-shutdown/54414 "2016-12-17T09:21:23Z")
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### Author: ![MerryMinstrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merryminstrel/32/56896_2.png) [@MerryMinstrel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MerryMinstrel)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 29 日午後 9:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrade-failed-due-to-unclean-database-shutdown/54414/14 "2016-12-29T21:49:49Z")

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> [@ljpp](#):
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> Did a manual backup, but it is several megabytes smaller than the previous backup from early November.

I`m experiencing similar behavior on ScaleWay. Only looks like in my case backups are more badly corrupted. Backup files are smaller than before and any restoration attempt fails.[(Restoration produces errors like these)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-error-database-escape-problem/49585)

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