Move Gitea to another server (Command line required)

Install/Maintain/Configure
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Other closed topic exist with this title (https://forum.gitea.com/t/move-gitea-to-another-server/1513), but I need another way to move my server. I don’t want to start using SQL server because of private usage of Gitea. My server is using SQLite and I need a way that take lower time from me to back up and restore. I can not spend time on research every time I restore backups.

I need only a single command to restore my backup to the completely new db file. So it’s easy to describe how to restore backups to the next person.

Thank you for your attention

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if you are using sqlite then you can just archive the the /var/lib/gitea directory and the /etc/gitea directory and untar on the new server in the same locations

3

Moving from window to Linux. Tried many ways, and I’m still working on it. But can I remember how to recover a backup after a year? Or I should spend a day for it again.

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I have version mismatch problem.

2023/10/06 23:44:10 cmd/web.go:175:serveInstalled() [I] PING DATABASE sqlite3
2023/10/06 23:44:10 ...ations/migrations.go:599:Migrate() [I] Migration[184]: Rename Task errors to message
2023/10/06 23:44:10 routers/common/db.go:34:InitDBEngine() [E] ORM engine initialization attempt #3/10 failed. Error: migrate: migration[184]: Rename Task errors to message failed: error in table task after rename: duplicate column name: message
2023/10/06 23:44:10 routers/common/db.go:35:InitDBEngine() [I] Backing off for 3 seconds
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Yes, you need to recover to the same Gitea version as you dumped.