Migration from Server A to Server B

[vysecurity]

What's the best way to migrate the entire system from Server A to Server B?

Server A backs itself up every 3 hours and transfers all docker containers, volumes, and images to an off-site server. I have yet to try to restore it, though.

What would your recommendation be, or what the official method would be?

Other ideas:

1. Dump the entire Postgres database and restore to a newly deployed instance.
2. ...

[MWedl]

In the community edition, you need to collect backup data yourself. What you need is two things: a database dump and files from file storages. Both are stored in docker volumes, so backing up the volumes should include all data. When restoring backups, make sure that

• the backup is restored to the same SysReptor version for which the backup was created
• the config in deploy/app.env is the same (especially encryption keys)

In SysReptor professional, there are official backup and restore commands that export and import all data. These commands perform all necessary steps in the background and are more flexible (e.g. import old backup to new version, allow different encryption keys, backup files from S3 storage)

[aronmolnar]

We are also working on a migration procedure with our CLI tool https://github.com/syslifters/reptor/

That's still WIP.