How to move teslamate to a different host?

[segdy]

I know this can be a docker question too but I'm hoping for guidance on how to move my TeslaMate containers to a different host without loosing any settings, data, as well as the link to the car. I don't have much docker experience.

I searched a bit but moving docker containers seems to be surprisingly daunting. export vs save, commit, data volumes ... why can't this just be simple?

I have 4 containers:

docker ps | grep -i tesla

a148f458f2d9   eclipse-mosquitto:2          "/docker-entrypoint.…"   10 months ago   Up 4 months             1883/tcp                                    teslamate-mosquitto-1
f6c6a3c727eb   postgres:15                  "docker-entrypoint.s…"   10 months ago   Up 4 months             5432/tcp                                    teslamate-database-1
57c1e06f1e67   teslamate/grafana:latest     "/run.sh"                10 months ago   Up 4 months             0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp, :::3000->3000/tcp   teslamate-grafana-1
7fd1abc0c1cd   teslamate/teslamate:latest   "tini -- /bin/sh /en…"   10 months ago   Up 4 months             0.0.0.0:4000->4000/tcp, :::4000->4000/tcp   teslamate-teslamate-1

What is the best approach to move to a new host?

[parkr]

My recommendation is to use the backup & restore method.

https://docs.teslamate.org/docs/maintenance/backup_restore

Shut down the teslamate container, backup from Postgres, create a tar off that backup, scp to the new host, start Postgres on the new host, restore to that new Postgres container, then start the other containers. It's also a good time to upgrade Postgres.

I have successfully moved hosts multiple times using this method. Besides the teslamate container's environment variables, all the state is held in the one Postgres database.

[fatman00]

Hi @parkr
I did the same as you describe and it worked. But I found that as the new docker host as another IP address, some links within the grafana dashboard still links to the old IP address.
Do you have any insights on how to clean this up?

[DrMichael]

That should not be the case. Do you have an example? (Or all? :-)

[eliluong]

Hi @parkr I did the same as you describe and it worked. But I found that as the new docker host as another IP address, some links within the grafana dashboard still links to the old IP address. Do you have any insights on how to clean this up?

Maybe you can try changing the URL in the Settings page, near the bottom. I am running an older version of Teslamate, so it might have been removed/changed.

[fatman00]

I changed the IP address under teslamates settings and web app URL, and that solved the issue. Now all the links to a location in the trips dashboard is pointing towards the correct :4000/