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?

  • catloafEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    That’s essentially what they did.

    • poVoqEnglish
      40·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • Mike WooskeyOPEnglish
        10·
        7 months ago

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

        • poVoqEnglish
          20·
          7 months ago

          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.

          • Mike WooskeyOPEnglish
            10·
            7 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.

    • Mike WooskeyOPEnglish
      30·
      7 months ago

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