Hello! I’ve been wondering, if i ever need to change my VPS, and i want to migrate my discourse forum to another machine, do i just make an image of the container, and launch it on the new vps?
Or is there anything else that needs to be done?
Best regards!
schleifer
August 4, 2019, 3:20am
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The two things you need to save to move a forum to a new server are:
Save a backup from the admin section
Copy the app.yml file
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Surely this is covered by an existing #faq topic @tshenry ?
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tshenry
August 5, 2019, 9:36pm
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Indeed! We have a couple methods that are documented:
This method is different than restoring file in UI.
Maybe there is a more downtime but it’s simpler for linux folks without Discourse knowledge and it’s easy to automate.
In this guide we’ll move an existing Discourse instance on Linode (source) to a new Discourse instance on Digital Ocean (destination), but of course these steps will work on any other cloud providers that support Docker.
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