Moving inventree data/installation from windows to linux/docker

[t0roide]

Hi,

I've been using actively inventree at work for a couple weeks now and loving it so far, the initial installation i.e. the one we're currently using is running on docker on my windows laptop but since my computer is under heavy use and not always available i want to migrate everything to a pc running docker on linux that will host the inventory and other serivices. I read on the docs that migration of the database is possible by exporting a .json file and then importing it back on the new installation but i would like to know if this means than only data about the parts can be transferred, what about the product images? supplier/manufacturer information and image? and what about the users and configurations like that.

From my laptop i've loaded some company logos and also some parts images and i know that those are stored in my persistent data folder because i can see them on there, but i'm not sure about images that other users loaded because those i can't see locally. Is there a way to migrate as much data/images/configurations as possible? I can think of a combination of copying the persistent data folder + .json importing but since the persistent data folder has only the things i've added i want to be sure of how this could work or what are my options to make the migration as smooth as possible without data loss.

Thanks in advance!

[matmair]

Hi there @isa-tt !
The commands described here export everything in the database:. You then just need to copy the resulting file, your persistent folder and your secrets.txt and config.yaml to the new host. Import the data and you should be up and running again.

[t0roide]

Thanks @matmair for the link to the docker info, i've been reading some more on the whole docker volumes for windows thing and what has worked for me is this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43181654/locating-data-volumes-in-docker-desktop-windows
i'll leave the link just in case someone is trying to figure this out too, following the info on that link the wsl folder for docker appeared in my network connections and i could look there for the target directory /home/inventree that was listed on the volumes in the docker desktop app. After looking around i just used the search bar to look for an inventree folder or .json file from the last export and found everything.

So no more missing data.json file to migrate my data and found the home directory for my container, but i have another question, before trying to migrate, the persistent data folder needs some update or does it updates itself while docker is running? if it needs updating which command should i use?

Some other info on the docker volumes that helped and was newbie friendly:

• https://earthly.dev/blog/docker-volumes/#:~:text=Unlike%20bind%20mount%2C%20where%20you,%2C%20restore%2C%20and%20migration).

• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/where-are-docker-images-stored-docker-container-paths-explained/

[matmair]

@isa-tt Great!
The data is kept in the persistent folder - you just need to copy that.

[matmair]

@t0roide can we mark this as answered or do you need more info?

[t0roide]

@matmair yes! consider this answered, all the info above was enough for me to solve my questions.

[matmair]

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