Hi Community, Recently I have added a new pool with new disks and I want to move my current deployed Apps (ElectricEel 24.10-RC.2) to the new pool because is new and faster. My workflow tod do it is go to Apps->Configuration->Choose Pool and select destination pool marking: “Migrate applications t…

[image] Mortorojo: Stop all apps and copy .ix-apps to another location, rsync -acX /mnt/.ix-apps/ /mnt/apps_temp/.ix-apps Unmount apps pool. Apps - Unset Pool Chang to new pool. Apps - Choose Pool Copy temp .ix-apps to new pool. rsync -acX /mnt/apps_temp/.ix-apps/ /mnt/.ix-apps This looks …

If it were replicated. Rsync is not replication. Ix-volumes create datasets inside the hidden ix-apps dataset. It should be possible (but I have not tested) to unset an apps pool, then manually recursively replicate the ix-apps dataset to another pool, then select that pool. It depends if the app…

I did try to unset the pool and performed a replication. Upon choosing my new NVME_Storage pool I had no apps. Would references to /mnt/.ix-apps be different than the references in the app to ixVolume, or is it the same? Wouldn’t /mnt/.ix-apps move with the replication, or is it stored somewhere oth…

So I was looking at it as /mnt/.ix-apps where /mnt/ was my dataset for the pool, not the /mnt/ folder in the terminal/shell. I tried using replication task, but it cannot find /mnt/.ix-apps so instead I unset my pool, performed a replication of the old dataset used in the pool to the new dataset I w…

I just created an account to share my experience with this process. So far, I’ve found that using rsync, cp, unset, and set cant help with migrating apps to another pool or, in my case, to a new server entirely. I also attempted to use Docker’s export and import commands, but while these methods al…

[image] Stux: It should be possible (but I have not tested) to unset an apps pool, then manually recursively replicate the ix-apps dataset to another pool, then select that pool. I tested it. [image] HOWTO: Copy the hidden ix-apps dataset from one pool to another Resources …

This worked great for me. Thanks.

Like a charm! Thanks a lot for taking the time. Saved me a few hours of configs.

Thanks, this worked for me as well but with a small issue, I ensured first that I had changed all storage mount points for each app before starting any app but it was failing anyway every time, after doing some research I ended up doing a SSH into my machine to try a docker restart and this fixed al…

Actually I was celebrating too fast, it messed up with some of my apps, hopefully we will get an update for this truenas scale version to make this proccess easier. Apps that worked without any issues and everything was as before: Filebrowser, Pihole, Nextcloud and Tailscale.

Move Apps to another Pool (ElectricEel 24.10-RC.2)

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Stux November 15, 2024, 5:34am 15

I tested it.

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