Migration to Cloudron from a Postgres backed instance
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Hello,
I'm currently trying to migrate my mattermost instance to Cloudron but I have an issue with all the attachments.
I used themattermost bulk export/importway as my current instance is using PostgreSQL. I succeeded to import all my messages (private or not), users, channels etc... but missing all the attachments.
I did copy my data folder from my original server to theapp/data/files/folder of my cloudron instance (there is some ~20Go of attachments in 55k files inside a tree of 66k folders hopefully backups will be ok) my issue is that those files aren't seen by mattermost (either during the import or after)Some ideas of what I could be doing wrong?
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@cvachery I would hold off a bit on this. Current mattermost package uses MySQL but we have been told that it is getting deprecated and move to PostgreSQL is in order. I guess you have already seen https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/9707/mattermost-v8-0-and-postgresql/ since you commented there.
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Yes I did but it not "urgent" but I need to move my mattermost instance ASAP so cloudron it is
I did see it but as I don't when it will be available I decided to move on. I guess I will be able to move from MySQL to PostgreSQL anyway in the future
And to answer my own question I missed a flag in the command
--import-path /app/data/files/which tells mattermost to look in this folder.It could be nice to add it to the documentation and in the same way edit the command to add the new path
/app/code/EDITION/bin/mattermostwhere EDITION can be eitherteamorenterprise -
And to finish on the migration issues encountered :
- My users lost their passwords during the migration (simply need to do forgotten password but still an inconvenience)
- Couldn't migrate custom emoji (had to delete them from the jsonl file
- User avatars were not migrated
- All private messages are now unread
