Great to see such an active forum around OpenBalena here, I really appreciate the availability of the community. Are there any recommended protocols for backing up OpenBalena server side and migrating it to another server (i.e., new IP addresses), with the exception of course of just mirroring the …

Hey @maggie0002 , first of all welcome to the balena community yourself : ) In this thread there are couple of suggestions on what to backup: [image] Re-Setup Open Balena Server and not loose devices openBalena We are planning on using openBalena for our iot project. It’s …

Hi, That is helpful, gives me a head start, thanks. Here is how I would see it then so far: Backup: Backing up the ~/open-balena dir Backing up the Docker volumes on the server Server move: Restore the ~/open-balena dir and docker volumes to new server './script/compose pull` to pull down th…

Hey, Are the backed up volumes named volumes, that will link back to the new setup or are they allowed to be named by Docker, which could prevent issues moving servers or restoring from a backup? They are named volumes, as defined in the docker-compose file. You could need to backup/restore the…

Thanks, Noted on the Docker volumes, I will either backup the contents of the volumes (rather than the volume files themselves) and inject the data back in, or might also try taking the whole /var/lib/docker folder and restoring Docker from that too. At some point in the near future I will be need…

awesome, good luck and thanks for the update

Backing up and migrating OpenBalena

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gelbal February 3, 2020, 9:56am 3

Hey @maggie0002, first of all welcome to the balena community yourself : )

In this thread there are couple of suggestions on what to backup:

Let us know of any further questions.

Cheers…

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