Moving existing setup to new hardware / computer

[Gulpman]

Hi,
I am about to move my Zwave-JS UI running on docker on a debian machine to a Proxmox server, running docker in a debian VM.
So I want to keep my AEON Labs Z-Stick Gen 5 and configuration but need to move it over to a new location.

I didn't find anything in the docs about migrating to a new computer. I only found hints for changning the controller within the same machine.

For my scenario: Would it be suitable to recursively copy the store folder to it's new location, plug the Z-Wave stick to the new hardware, make it visible in the VM and then just install the docker container on the new hardware pointing to this copied directory?

My current store folder looks like this:

sascha@oldmachine:~/docker/smarthome/zwave-js-ui/store$ ls -lsa
insgesamt 644
  4 drwxrwxr-x 9 sascha sascha   4096 Mai 30 12:44 .
  4 drwxrwxr-x 3 sascha sascha   4096 Mai  4  2024 ..
  4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root     4096 Mai  9  2024 backups
  4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      688 Mai 23  2024 cert.pem
  4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 Mai  4  2024 config
  4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root     4096 Mai 20 08:27 .config-db
 68 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    66475 Mai 30 12:44 e2e33f64.jsonl
248 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   252957 Apr  4 01:00 e2e33f64.metadata.jsonl
268 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   272924 Mai 30 12:44 e2e33f64.values.jsonl
  4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      902 Mai 23  2024 key.pem
  4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 Mai 11  2024 logs
  4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 Mai 30 12:44 mqtt-packets-store
  4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     2181 Mai 30 12:24 nodes.json
  4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 Mai  4  2024 sessions
  8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     5044 Mai 30 12:05 settings.json
  4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 Mai  4  2024 snippets
  4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      186 Mai  4  2024 users.json

I also did backups of the nodes, the config and the controller's NVM via advanced settings in the GUI (hamburger on bottom right) as well as an export of the GUI settings (via the hamburger menu on the top left)

So would it be enough to just copy the store folder to the new location and configure the docker compose file to point to it?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

[robertsLando]

So would it be enough to just copy the store folder to the new location and configure the docker compose file to point to it?

yep, the most important files are store and nvm backup, nvm is not required but just safe to have in case controller corrupts for whatever reason. The store essentially have all your settings and nodes caches while nvm is the controller memory backup

[Gulpman]

Hi @robertsLando,
thank you for your reply.

I just want to confirm, I was able to do the migration just by copying over the store folder recursively to the new lcation.

In case you are running Home Assistant, you have to point the Z-Wave JS integration to the new location of z-wave-js as well.