Migration options from v10 self-hosted to v12 docker

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My own Seafile instance is currently running on a Centos v7 virtual machine and therefore is end-of-line. I’m looking at migrating to a docker instance as that seems the sensible solution these days. Any hints, tips and gotchas on the migration process? I assume the tricky part is migrating the existing MariaDB database and Seafile data folders?

I’m going to implement a separate Seafile instance first to get everything up and running with Nginx proxy server.

Later… reading the much improved v12 documentation, I notice that Docker is the only supported/documention method and that bare metal is frowned upon. Not that I was planning bare metal.

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Hi Rob,

And thank you for bringing the subject up !
I am currently running Seafile 10 on a Debian environment and I am also wondering how I will be able to migrate to a “dockerized” Seafile 12.

I’ve also prepared a new server to experiment Seafile 12 before migrating it.

Any input will be greatly appreciated :wink:

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My suggest steps are:

  1. Upgrade binary version of Seafile to 11.0 or 12.0 version.
  2. Deploy docker version of Seafile of the same version on a new machine
  3. Use back/restore procedure to back the data from the binary version of Seafile to the docker version of Seafile.
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Hi Daniel,

And thanks for you feedback. I will definitely try that !

Best regards,

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For some reason, I was struggling to upgrade beyond v10 and I can’t remember why. Probably v11 and above needs some feature/library that can’t be installed on Centos v7. I’ll have another go. Yes, I’d normally try and get the versions to match.

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In this case, you can migrate from v10 binary version to v10 docker version.