How to migrate the discourse container to another machine

[tshenry (Taylor)]

Indeed! We have a couple methods that are documented:

Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync

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. Prepare new VPS First, prepare our new Current Ubuntu LTS VPS with empty Discourse dir, OS upgrade and Docker install sudo mkdir -p /var/discourse sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh Then, make sure that we are on latest installed kernel and other libraries by just restarting …

Move your Discourse Instance to a Different Server

This is a guide for moving your Discourse instance from one server to another, including all settings and data. This guide applies to self-hosted Discourse instances using Docker. Required user level: System Administrator This procedure involves domain and DNS changes. Ensure you have access to both the source and destination servers. This guide walks you through the process of migrating your Discourse instance from one server to another, ensuring …