Make back-up > New fresh install > recover posts, users and data

[mechanix]

@connectkushal thank you. I´ll have a look at that. Would be nice to have some export/import function inside the admin dashboard though

[connectkushal]

@mechanix true ! this should be put up as a feature request.

[Albus]

As long as you migrate the .rdb database (download, then upload to new instance) and carry over your existing redis.conf you can migrate without issue.

[yariplus]

When you change nodebb versions you will need to do ./nodebb upgrade to update the database schema, I would do that first before backing it up and moving it to a clean install. afaik the database is located at /var/redis/6379/dump.rdb by default.

[connectkushal]

@yariplus and for mongodb users ?

[yariplus]

@connectkushal ehh, /data/db/ is the default, but it can vary by distro, check your mongodb.conf, src

[manan]

@yariplus moving to clean install and copying config.json and starting the instance gives "Error:Cannot find module mongodb" error. Please help me find what to do in this case.

[pikshub]

[yariplus]

@manan said in Make back-up > New fresh install > recover posts, users and data:

Error:Cannot find module mongodb

It would appear that the mongodb package is not installed. Running npm install again might fix it.

[manan]

@yariplus Ah...I was doing it on version 0.9.4 which did not have mongodb dependency listed in package.json. Had to install manually. Thanks.