Backup and restore from 2 runtipi instances
I have 2 instances currently running on different hardware and I am looking to merge them into one. I have gone through this page https://runtipi.io/docs/guides/backup-and-restore. And created the backup tars.
Also I have previously used the appDataPath to store the files on a differnt drive and now I cannot find it in the settings. So does this backup includes everything? And how should I proceed with merging.
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In order to merge both instances, it’ll require a bit of manual work.
If you have a custom appDataPath, you should manually include the data in the archive or do it separately
Firstly try to restore one of the twos instances (the one with most apps to reduce manual work)
If successful, you can then extract the second archive in a temporary directory and manually move the content of /apps and /app-data
once done, you can install the apps from runtipi, it’ll keep the existing app-data content.
Make sure to always a copy of your backups at hand, in case of failure at any step
Thanks Nicholas, I was able to backup everything in a single tar using symlink follow. I will attempt merging them. Will keep you posted.