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Assistance migrating from gitea to forgejo (lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hi. I self-host gitea in docker and have a few repos, users, keys, etc. I installed forgejo in docker and it runs, so I stopped the container and copied /var/lib/docker/volumes/gitea_data/_data/* to /var/lib/docker/volumes/forgejo_data/_data/, but when I restart the forgejo container, forgejo doesn't show any of my repos, users, keys, etc.

My understanding was the the current version of forgejo is a drop-in replacement for gitea, so I was hoping all gitea resources were saved to its docker volume and would thus be instantly usable by forgejo. Guess not. :(

Does anyone have any experience migrating their gitea instance to forgejo?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why this backwards way of migrating? The recommended way to to replace the Gitea docker image with the Forgejo one and leave everything else in place. Maybe make a backup before that you can revert to in case something goes wrong though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's essentially what they did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You have a very loose definition of "essentially". I can see easily see multiple ways of the OP's copy approach failing while swapping out the container in place would not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can you share some of them so I might have an idea what to try to do differently?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You need to share more details about your setup, but as others have already mentioned, it could be an database issue, because usually Gitea is configured to use a Postgresql database.

Also make sure you don't combine an upgrade with a migration, the Gitea and Forgejo versions need to be roughly the same. Especially around the 1.20 version there was a need to change the folder structure before upgrading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for that info. I did combine an upgrade (1.20 to 1.21) with the migrations, but I guess I lucked into it working. My problem was that the container's path to the migrated gitea volume was incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That is what I did. And it didn't work.