Discourse Productive Instance 1:1 Migrate to Test Server

[NateDhaliwal]

@ToddZ

Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync - Community wiki / Sysadmins

But that involves rebuilding the forum, no?

Then again, it just might work:

@pfaffman

You might be able to do a ./launcher destroy app;./launcher start app and then restore the backup from the command line.

What I would recommend is Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync and Set up a staging server

@elRicharde

However, I absolutely do not want to perform a rebuild, but rather get a 1:1 copy running in the first step.

Then what you’d do is push your docker image somewhere, and then use ./launcher start-cmd app to see how to start it. So you’ll need to figure out enough about docker to push the image to a private repo and start it up and then restore the backup.

(While I’m at it, how is this topic different from the linked one?)