[Nix-dev] Migrating Hydra database between machines

Rob Vermaas rob.vermaas at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 06:40:19 CEST 2014


Hi,

I had some success on getting Hydra running on my own computer and I'm
> fairly happy how it worked out. The problem is that I have limited space
> here and not a great CPU, Core 2 Duo. Luckily I just re-purposed a
> Gentoo boxed into a NixOS one and Hydra is compiling there as I type
> this. NixOS is great.
>
> I would like to ask how to move the Hydra database with my projects and
> jobsets to the other computer which will from now on run all the builds.
> I am mostly looking to save myself time from having to recreate every
> project and jobsets as it's quite tedious.
>
>
You should be able to just use pg_dump to create a postgresql dump of the
hydra database, and import this on the new server. Have you tried this?

Cheers,
Rob
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