# Moving discourse instance to a new server

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-discourse-instance-to-a-new-server/378200>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [August 11, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-discourse-instance-to-a-new-server/378200 "2025-08-11T18:53:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-discourse-instance-to-a-new-server/378200/7 "2025-08-11T21:50:11Z")

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Question, even though I moved the /discourse folder over to a mountable volume, I still am struggling with docker. As containers and images are still being ran on the local drive instead of a volume. Any idea on how to fix this?

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