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Instance relocation (lemmy.click)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm planning to move my instance to a new VPS provider that will allow me to scale more simply.

Has anyone done this already and can sanity check my plan? My current setup was spun up using the ansible playbook here.

Current plan is:

Lower DNS TTL to 60 seconds (already done)

Shutdown on current VPS: docker-compose down

backup /srv/lemmy// and copy to new host

sudo tar -zcvpf backup.tar.gz /srv/lemmy//

scp backup.tar.gz user@newhost

update dns A and AAAA records, wait 1 minute, verify DNS has updated

run ansible script

Shutdown on new VPS: docker-compose down

restore backup to /srv/lemmy//

Startup on new VPS with restored DB etc: docker-compose up -d

test

destroy old VPS

Increase DNS TTL to 86400

Anything I've missed? :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems reasonable to me, although I would think you want to shut down the old instance before you do the backup, otherwise you potentially lose any new data between when you take the backup and when you shut down the server.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats what the "docker-compose down" is for in the second step :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Derp. Note to self: don't make serious comments after 10pm. My brain skipped right over the word "new" in the line Shutdown on new VPS: docker-compose down.