diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ea8dbc78..02dbb47f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "browsertrix-crawler",
-  "version": "1.6.0-beta.0",
+  "version": "1.6.0-beta.1",
   "main": "browsertrix-crawler",
   "type": "module",
   "repository": "https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler",
diff --git a/src/crawler.ts b/src/crawler.ts
index e3b00459..946554c8 100644
--- a/src/crawler.ts
+++ b/src/crawler.ts
@@ -476,8 +476,6 @@ export class Crawler {
   }
 
   async bootstrap() {
-    await this.initCrawlState();
-
     if (await isDiskFull(this.params.cwd)) {
       logger.fatal(
         "Out of disk space, exiting",
@@ -498,6 +496,8 @@ export class Crawler {
       subprocesses.push(this.launchRedis());
     }
 
+    await this.initCrawlState();
+
     await fsp.mkdir(this.logDir, { recursive: true });
 
     if (!this.params.dryRun) {