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How to migrate data between Gitea servers? #30507

Open springeye opened 7 months ago

springeye commented 7 months ago

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My old server is Centosos, and my new server is Docker Gitea, I have tried many methods, but it took me a few days without success. Either the Docker container cannot start after the migration is completed, or it cannot be accessed after successful startup without any errors I also checked a lot of fragmented information, such as https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/7858, and it seems that no one is useful either

Can provide a command to migrate?? such as gitea -- migrate newsever.com newadmintoken

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99rgosse commented 7 months ago

Have you tried using the gitea backup and restore command ? https://docs.gitea.com/administration/backup-and-restore#using-docker-dump

In docker, you just have to copy the data from the docker volume to your new system and put it in the same docker volume

It works flawlessly everyday for me, I recreate the running full server on a spare one.

springeye commented 7 months ago

Have you tried using the gitea backup and restore command ? https://docs.gitea.com/administration/backup-and-restore#using-docker-dump

In docker, you just have to copy the data from the docker volume to your new system and put it in the same docker volume

It works flawlessly everyday for me, I recreate the running full server on a spare one.

Yes, I have tried before, but the first few attempts have all failed (without any error messages or normal access). Yesterday, I manually processed the files and permissions and finally managed to use them

springeye commented 7 months ago

I hope Gitea can backup and restore with just one click. Whether it's native app or docker

99rgosse commented 7 months ago

Even Gitlab does not propose this. There is too much risk of loss at stake. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/backup_restore/restore_gitlab.html

Even if an automatized Gitea backup would be neat, the administrator have to make sure the server has space, it is not corrupted, and so on, at this point, this is not anymore a gitea topic.