Hi everyone,
I finally decided to set up a new SSD pool with the goal of moving all my apps from my current (pretty slow) pool to something much faster. Now that the new pool is ready, I’m running into a lot of doubts about how to actually proceed.
From what I’ve read on the forum, it sounds like there used to be a way to migrate everything automatically, but that option has been removed. I’d really like to avoid reinstalling all my apps if possible (for example, Immich alone would take weeks to rebuild the database for the millions of photos I have!).
So here are my questions:
Is there any way to move my apps over without reinstalling them? (Aside from a couple of custom apps, 95% of what I’m running comes from the official catalog.)
If there’s no automated solution, is there a manual way to do it?
If neither option is possible and I do need to reinstall everything on the new pool, could I at least copy the ix-apps dataset and Immich dataset over afterwards, in hopes of keeping my previous app configs and data?
As you can probably tell, I’m far from an expert… so if you have a solution, please make it noob-proof.
In the Apps view go into the Configure options and set the SSH Pool as the Apps pool.
Then use Replication to copy your apps to the new pool. Simply use local replication from your old pool to the new pool.
Once you have done this, you will likely have to go through the process of reinstalling the Apps, which is really about configuring each app to use the existing datasets/folders that you copied to your new pool.
Once you do this, you will see the App in the new Apps pool and working as expected. When you are happy, you can remove the original Apps pool.
