Migrate to a new server

[mxwmnn]

Hello,

I'm trying to migrate code-server to a new server.

I rsynced with -arzP to the new server the /root dir and then ran the install script. But there are no extensions installed and the settings aren't available and set like on the old server.

Would love to hear how to migrate the right way.

Thanks!

[code-asher]

Yup that is pretty much the right way. You can get away with only syncing the code-server data directory rather than the entire home directory, but assuming you are running code-server under the root user in both the old and new servers then syncing /root should have worked. The data directory is by default in ~/.local/share/code-server, so if running as root that should be /root/.local/share/code-server. Can you verify that directory synced properly and that code-server is running as root?

[mxwmnn]

Did it again with a clean install and now works well with rsync -arvzP from old to new machine.

Thanks !