Drone backup and restore

Drone Support
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Hi

We need to move our drone installation from one gke cluster to another.
What is the best possible way do do it without loosing data ?
What needs to be backed up and restored at new cluster?
Are there any considerations we need to take into account?

Thank you for your help

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Drone stores all state in the database.

  • If you are using a sqlite3 database you would copy the database file from your old cluster to your new cluster.
  • If you are using a hosted database (e.g. cloud sql) you would just shutdown the old Drone cluster and point the new Drone cluster to the existing database
  • If you are self-hosting a database (mysql, postgres) inside the cluster, and you want to setup a new database in the new cluster, you would use standard database backup and restore tools to move the data from the old database to the new database.