Paperless-ngx restore userdata from replication-Dataset

Apps and Virtualization
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Hi,

I’m running Truenas Scale ElectricEel and my apps have been installed on an apps-Pool on a single SSD, which degraded (now I will have that as Mirror…).
The paperless-ngx-Dataset was on this SSD and contained “appdata” and “postgress”.
“Media”, “consume” and “trash”-Datasets were on another Data-pool (HDDs) and are intact.

Before the SSD died I copied the paperless-ngx-Dataset from the SSD to that Data-pool by a replication Task.

Now I have a new SSD with a fresh paperless Installation with the same Dataset-structure which works.

But as soon as I copy the content of the backup (appdata-Dataset and postgress-Dataset) to the same Datasets from the fresh install (I made SMB shares for both), the app does not start anymore.

During installation on the new SSD-Pool I put the same credentials.

My Question is:
How do I get back my old userdata (Tags, categorization etc.) on that fresh install.
I already tried to replicate the backup Datasets to the new app-pool and install into these Datasets without success :confused:

Please help!

Best,
Keule

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Maybe a more general question:
What’s the best practice to backup the configuration of the Truenas apps?

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Watching container logs should help you troubleshoot that specific problem.

The first things come in my mind to check are

  • environment variable
  • postgres dataset acl

Have you installed via yaml or from catalogue?