I have a Discourse installation installed on DO via docker. What’s best practice for moving the installation to a new droplet? I’d assume just create an image from the droplet, kill the droplet, spin up new droplet from the saved image. Or is there a better way to do it? My use case is: I want to have backups of my droplet, which means i need a new droplet as they can only be toggled on with new droplets, and not on existing droplets AFAIK. Also, I want to make sure I don’t lose any data acquired so far from the Discouse installation.

[图片] sckott: Or is there a better way to do it? You could use our backup/restore feature but that would require you to rebuild a new discourse instance from scratch. If you can “transfer” the image from one droplet to another, it’ll be easier/faster :wink:

@zogstrip Thanks! Good to know about backup/restore feature. I’ll go with image to new droplet then.

Yeah I would follow the Digital Ocean procedure for moving the droplet: How to Migrate Droplets Using DigitalOcean Snapshots | DigitalOcean... Use snapshots to migrate a Droplet from one data center region to another. Start by taking a snapshot, but be aware this can take a while, up to 30 minutes, as it has to copy all 30+ gb of data on the droplet around.

I have not tried it yet. But I will try very soon. Will let you know

I did this a lot when working on ‘fun’ projects once or twice a month. Instead of paying for the full month. Take a snapshot and destroy. Then in a week or two or three … spin up a new droplet from the snapshot. It works well.

Cool Thanks @geoff777 I’ll try it out then :slight_smile:

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chi 2018 年7 月 4 日 02:53 6

@sckott were you able to successful transfer the discourse installation to another installation using snapshots? I’m planning to do the same thing. Thanks

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