Full transfer Seafile CE Server (ARM RaspberryPi) to Ubuntu Server (x86)

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#1

Hi,

is there any elegant way to move the complete seafile CE server (users, data, configs) to another Computer?

I’ve a raspberryPi running Seafile 9.0.2. But i want to switch from ARM to x86 - so i bought a Lenovo M700 thinkCentre and installed Ubuntu Server.

My main challenge is, i have no idea how to transfer the complete server most elegant with all users and their data to the new server. Kind of clone, but working on a different architecture.

The best case would be if i can directly switch to seafile docker on ubuntu.

Are there any good tutorials? :slight_smile:

#2

Well my first attempt failed:

Seafile Service starts. Seahub directly fails. The Seahub .log file is empty.

If i start it manually it says:

LC_ALL is not set in ENV, set to en_US.UTF-8
./seahub.sh: line 220: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory
Starting seahub at port 8000 ...

Seahub is started

Done.

But it is not up. If i try to open the http://myserver:80 site it says:
Not found

Side note: The new server has seafile 9.0.4 x86, the productive server 9.0.2 ARM version. Maybe i shoud try 9.0.2 x86 and update later?

Edit: I tried it with Seafile 9.0.2 x86. Same result.

Any advice?

#4

So I figured out what the problem is:

Portainer / Docker is using port 8000. But seahub does not log any error.
I found this:

conf/gunicorn.conf.py and change daemon = True to daemon = False

Start seahub again with

./seahub.sh start

after that i got the error, that port 8000 is already in use. I will fix this and will reply if the migration finally worked.

#5

Update:

Seahub and Seafile starts. But if i open the website the page looks broken:

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I already found a few threads with the same problem. What i have checked:

  • open on host 0.0.0.0:8000 (seahub port) - The Page appears correctly. Login works too. But if i open the user settings the site shows “server hiccup”. Adminstrator Settings are working. Strange…

  • Refreshing user permission for the seafile home folder with

sudo chown -R seafile:seafile seafile

→ no effect

Something is really broken but i have no clue what the issue is?

#6

Finally got it working. As follows, my steps if someone step over my topic:

  • Install Seafile with Docker. I use portainer and this tutorial:
    https://www.diytechguru.com/2021/04/28/install-seafile-on-docker/
    It works out of the box.

  • Dump Seafile MariaDBs (creating backup of MariaDBs: ccnet-db, seafile-db, seahub-db): I used this tutorial:
    How to dump & restore a MariaDB/MySQL database from a docker container
    Placed the dumps to the mysql shared path of the seafile-mysql container. I used the default folder /opt/container/seafile-mysql/db and created a temp subdir with mkdir _backup where i’ve placed my dumps.

  • Logged with portainer (console) into the seafile-mysql container

  • Restore the DBs (path of my _backup folder where the dumps are:
    /var/lib/mysql/_backup) with the restore command (tutorial above).
    Following DBs are affected: ccnet-db, seafile-db, seahub-db

  • Restore seafile-data and seahub-data: Go to your default container volume path (mine: /opt/container/seafile/seafile-data/seafile). Delete seafile-data and seahub-data. Transfer your seafile-data and seahub-data from productiv system to this path. Set root as owner of both folders:
    sudo chown -R root:root seafile-data
    sudo chown -R root:root seahub-data

  • (re)Start your docker stack

  • open web interface and login

  • I still had problems with pdf Preview and file upload. Also my profile picture was broken. I checked System-Administration → SERVICE_URL and FILE_SERVER_ROOT. I’ve set a different port in docker for seafile. So I changed it to:
    SERVICE_URL -> http://adressOrIpOfTheServer:Port/
    FILE_SERVER_ROOT -> http://adressOrIpOfTheServer:Port/seafhttp

That’s it i think. Maybe i could helpout someone in the future with this hints.