We have a public site where we have discourse deployed and we need to take the data and restore it to the air-gapped server or/and duplicate data to another server. I am not able to simply take the backup and modify .sql to change the domain name. Is there a migration tool or guide I can use?

Just make a backup and restore it to the server.

Hello Rupesh :wave: As pfaffman said. There’s documentation about this: [תמונה] Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server Self-Hosting bookmark This is a guide for moving your Discourse instance from one server to another, including all settings and…

We are deploying in Kubernetes and using keycloak as sso usng openid plugin. When we take the backup from 1 instance and restore to another, login is redirecting to instance 1 instead of instance 2.

There are a whole bunch of things that could be the issue, but my best guess is the SSO is redirecting to the other url. I would look at the SSO config rather than at discourse.

[תמונה] Rupesh: When we take the backup from 1 instance and restore to another, login is redirecting to instance 1 instead of instance 2. That doesn’t sound like you’re just migrating to another server. It sounds like you’re changing the URL of your forum. My tip: do not do these two things …

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) 5 ביוני,‏ 2023,‏ 3:38pm 3

Hello Rupesh

As pfaffman said.

There’s documentation about this:

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Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server Self-Hosting migrations , how-to	10	293484	16 באוקטובר,‏ 2025
How to migrate my Discourse instance to a fresh new install Support	3	3000	7 ביולי,‏ 2018
How do I restore Discourse under a different domain? Self-hosting	2	518	12 באפריל,‏ 2022
How do I move the discourse installed server to another server without loss? Self-hosting	4	1188	31 במאי,‏ 2023
Move Discourse to a new server without setting up the web UI first? Self-hosting	11	2858	3 בספטמבר,‏ 2022

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