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AirysChat database migration

Follow along If you started out with a bundled install of postgres, redis and airyschat in a single instance and now wants to migrate to managed database service. In this guide, we assume you want to migrate to AWS RDS. This guide should be equally applicable to any other managed database service or even migrating data between different AirysChat installations.

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Step 1: Stop AirysChat service

Stop AirysChat service to stop database activity. 
sudo systemctl stop airyschat.target

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Step 2: Back up the database

Back up the database using pg_dump tool. 
pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner  -U postgres airyschat_production > /tmp/cw.dump

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Step 3: Create RDS instance

Create an RDS Postgres instance in your AWS account. Refer to the AWS documentation.

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Step 4: Verify connectivity

Verify connectivity to the new RDS instance from your AirysChat installation. 
psql -h <hostname> -u <username> -d postgres

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Step 5: Restore the database

Restore the database from the backup file. 
pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner --create -U postgres -d postgres /tmp/cw.dump

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Step 6: Update environment variables

Modify the Postgres related environment variables to use the new RDS credentials. 
sudo -i -u airyschat
cd airyschat
vi .env

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Step 7: Start AirysChat service

Start the AirysChat service. 
sudo systemctl start airyschat.target
If you are getting the AirysChat onboarding screen again on visiting your self-hosted AirysChat URL, login to the rails console and run the following:
sudo cwctl --console
::Redis::Alfred.delete(::Redis::Alfred::AIRYSCHAT_INSTALLATION_ONBOARDING)