Need help please! Restore forum from DB backup

[merefield (Robert)]

Have you looked at the #sysadmin documentation on this?

Manually create and restore Discourse backups

As discussed below, a warning for newbies: this is an advanced method! there is an automated, web UI way to restore from backups at /admin/backups which is so much easier. with the method below, no automatic backup is kept of the /var/discourse/containers/app.yml file which contains essential SMTP credentials and SSL customizations. Keep a copy of this offsite whenever you change it. If you are using digital ocean, keep frequent snapshots of your droplets - preferably before each time you run .…