# Uploading backup failing
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-backup-failing/170470
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 18, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-backup-failing/170470 "2020-11-18T11:40:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@akapetzoglou1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/akapetzoglou1)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-backup-failing/170470/1 "2020-11-18T11:40:52Z")
Hey all!
I am trying to upload a backup (which I’ve also used before without problems) but I now I get `502 bad gateway`.
Is my backup not usable any more ?
 
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-backup-failing/170470/2 "2020-11-18T13:00:28Z")
It’s not a problem with your backup.
Does your forum work at all?
If you can, I’d recommend uploading it via scp or rsync. It goes in `/var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default`
There is a topic about how to restore from the command line as well.
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### Author:  [@akapetzoglou1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/akapetzoglou1)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-backup-failing/170470/3 "2020-11-18T13:09:58Z")
Do backups expire somehow? I had two downloaded and saved on my machine, these were the ones that had this issue. Then I found more recent one I had and it worked like normal 🥳
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-backup-failing/170470/4 "2020-11-18T17:34:08Z")
HOw did you install Discourse? Do you have a reverse proxy in front of it perchance?
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### Author:  [@akapetzoglou1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/akapetzoglou1)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-backup-failing/170470/5 "2020-11-18T18:00:51Z")
Nope! The official installation 🤔