Migrating Cloudron to a new instance type on AWS EC2
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We're running our Cloudron on AWS EC2, initially created from a AWS Marketplace AMI. I just attempted to upgrade to a different instance type with a newer Intel-based processor instance type (r5.large => r7i.large), and saw this error message:
Failed to modify instance type for instance. The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported. Please see the AWS Marketplace site for more information about supported instance types, regions, and operating systems.
The Cloudron AMI that we started from is no longer available in the Marketplace. What would you recommend in order to move to a newer processor? Perhaps a fresh Cloudron install on a new instance that is not connected to the Marketplace? Or launch a new Cloudron Marketplace AMI and restore a backup from the current instance? Appreciate any advice on this.
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The easiest way is to do a full backup in cloudron, create a new instance, install cloudron, shutdown the old server and restore the backup. Just make sure that you install the same cloudron version. I think is not relevant if you use the install script or the marketplace.
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Does amazon not provide a way to migrate across servers using snapshots? After all, only the CUP is being changed . They should be able to move over disk data .
In the absence of that, do what @simong said. https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#move-cloudron-to-another-server
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