# Upgrading very old Discourse Get Ruby error

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**Created:** [February 14, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrading-very-old-discourse-get-ruby-error/295387 "2024-02-14T20:15:25Z")\
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> [@Oogiem](#):
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> And it was created 3 years ago

Given the age of the host machine, your best bet here is probably to take a backup of the site, create a new server, do the install, then restore the backup onto the new server.

It’s going to be less work (and a lot easier) than upgrading the existing server.

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