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Migrating from ARM to X86 (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by SnowyLocksmith@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hello All,

I currently have a home server on a raspberry pi 4 with all my services running as docker containers. All containers have their own directories containing the config and database files. This makes it easy to backup and export then.

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However, in the future I have plans to migrate to a more powerful server. This means I will probably not be using a CPU with an ARM architecture. So effectively, I will also have to use the corresponding docker images. So will this new x86 docker image work with my backup docker config volumes?

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[-] SnowyLocksmith@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I know that. I am just curious if the files containing the data of previous images will work with the new images as well?

[-] Ieris19@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

It should, in theory, only the binaries should be different so all config/media should work.

[-] Sir_Squish@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You'll have to make sure the volumes are mapped to appropriate directories. Such that if on your pi setup its /somedir/app1/blah, that you change it to /newdir/app1/blah.

It's even easier if you re-create the same directory heirarchy on the new server, and you can rsync your folders over. I found it easier to re-create the containers first, and all my volume mounts are bind type: ie use an existing folder, rather than letting docker create the volume wherever it wants.

I did exactly this kind of migration not that long ago, and for the same reason, and from the same source/destination platforms.

this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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