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Assistance migrating from gitea to forgejo (lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. I self-host gitea in docker and have a few repos, users, keys, etc. I installed forgejo in docker and it runs, so I stopped the container and copied /var/lib/docker/volumes/gitea_data/_data/* to /var/lib/docker/volumes/forgejo_data/_data/, but when I restart the forgejo container, forgejo doesn't show any of my repos, users, keys, etc.

My understanding was the the current version of forgejo is a drop-in replacement for gitea, so I was hoping all gitea resources were saved to its docker volume and would thus be instantly usable by forgejo. Guess not. :(

Does anyone have any experience migrating their gitea instance to forgejo?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recently did a bare metal migration from Gitea to Forgejo using NixOS, maybe this info is useful if you use SQLite (which I believe is the default): the SQLite database filename for Gitea is gitea.db and for Forgejo it’s forgejo.db so I had to do a rename. Before renaming I ended up with an empty Forgejo instance. Either way I hope you figure it out in the end. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll try that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Unfortunately that didn't work for me.