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November 18, 2020 at 3:07pm

Hello, How can I transfer my Wekan docker-db? I transer "volumes:

- ./wekan-db:/data/db" but if I start docker-compose it's didn't start (eternal restarting docker-db)
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    how can I migrate Wekan-db if I have only "./wekan-db:/data/db" from my other server

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      November 18, 2020 at 7:53pm

      You copy raw MongoDB files to same version of MongoDB database server raw file directory, start MongoDB, do mongodump, restore to Wekan Snap or Wekan Docker

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        November 18, 2020 at 10:52pm

        thanks for reply, I have broken docker container with wekan I can't start any docker services on my old VM so can I just transfer my wekan-db directory? because I can't start wekan-db docker and do backup. Have you any advise?

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          Yes, you just copy your wekan-db directory with those raw mongodb database files to another computer where you have working mongodb of same version

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            you replace those mongodb files on when mongodb is not running

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              and then start mongodb

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                and then try mongodump

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                  November 19, 2020 at 9:44am

                  and then start mongodb

                    can't start wekan-mongo-db container if I replace all mongodb files

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                      if I replaced mongodb files it trigered to infinoty restarting wekan db container

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                        but if I delete / clear back mongo-db directory it's works fine again

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                          November 19, 2020 at 1:44pm

                          Does it give any errors? docker logs wekan-db

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                            November 19, 2020 at 3:54pm

                            Does it give any errors? docker logs wekan-db

                              sent you a huge log in private message, check please

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                                November 19, 2020 at 5:49pm

                                It seems there is checksum errors, so most likely that data is corrupted

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                                  I would recommend restoring from your previous backup. If you really need some data from those files, you could look at them with hex editor, or linux command "strings somefilename"

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                                    November 19, 2020 at 6:54pm

                                    I would recommend restoring from your previous backup. If you really need some data from those files, you could look at them with hex editor, or linux command "strings somefilename"

                                      can't open wekan mongo-db container it's always restarting / droped

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                                        November 20, 2020 at 8:19am

                                        fixed broken mongodb by delete mondog.lock and all diagnostic.data than start mongo with repair flag "mongod --repair" Thanks

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                                          November 20, 2020 at 6:43pm

                                          @dmitrii Oh nice that repair did work. Please check that you did not lose some part of data when repairing.

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                                            November 23, 2020 at 10:11am

                                            Hi there,m I'm new to this community, just now starting to integrate Wekan in my company's Workflow. Before we've been using Trello, but we've heard from customers they weren't okay with Trello because it's not a swiss company and we deal with a lot of sensitive data. So far, I'm loving Wekan lots.

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                                              November 23, 2020 at 1:27pm

                                              Thanks @kristophersson and Welcome ! :)

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                                                For all Wekan users, I recommend at least daily backups https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Backup

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                                                  December 18, 2020 at 8:35pm

                                                  Yippee

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                                                    Hmm, I got some email about some service "year in review"

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