# Might have some downtime later today or tomorrow **URL:** \ **Category:** meta\ **Created:** [July 6, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333 "2017-07-06T19:32:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/1 "2017-07-06T19:32:40Z")
Thanks to the Discourse Team, we’ve finally fixed my [long-running Docker issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-install-failing-on-bootstrap-failed-to-add-veth-to-sandbox/52780)! This means I can (finally) rip out LXC/LXD and pull Docker up to running natively on the OS instead of hiding inside a container (containers inside of containers makes me a sad sysadmin). Just an FYI to everyone—the switchover will involve some downtime, but hopefully not a lot. Will try to get this put to bed either this evening after work or tomorrow AM. I don’t think the result will be all that visible to you guys, but it’ll save me some RAM from not having to run the separate LXC container and it’ll simplify my life quite a bit from an admin perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/2 "2017-07-07T12:24:48Z")
This is done—sorry for anyone who tried to post between, like, 10pm central and like 4am central. This migration was really weird, but I _think_ it’s done now. Please let me know if anyone sees anything weird happening. ---
**Author:** ![balance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/balance/32/1888_2.png) [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/3 "2017-07-07T13:22:34Z")
Didn’t notice a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/4 "2017-07-07T13:42:29Z")
Glad to hear it! The process wasn’t complex, but it was time consuming—you have to take a full-state backup of Discourse (which is just a single button), then kill the old Discourse instance, stand up a new one from scratch, do the discourse [bootstrap dance](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md), register an admin user, then log in and restore the backup. The restore took _hours_, and I don’t remember it ever taking that long. I started at about 10pm central, then gave up and went to bed at midnight with it still churning. Woke up this AM expecting to find a broken forum, but apparently the restore eventually completed and here we are. Discourse has evolved hugely over the past three-ish years—I remember having to manually compile Nginx with [Passenger](https://www.phusionpassenger.com/) and do all sorts of insane shit just to get it to run properly, and then re-do it for every upgrade. Now it’s all GUI-driven and automatic, and I have to say I’m super happy from an admin perspective. Which is good, because I don’t want to ever have to swap forum software again 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DocDubious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/docdubious/32/995_2.png) [@DocDubious](https://cog.discourse.group/u/DocDubious)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/5 "2017-07-07T16:11:48Z")
Only thing I noticed was my always-logged-in-account had been logged out. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/6 "2017-07-07T18:42:13Z")
Yeah, that makes sense. This is an entirely new Discourse instance, so cookies from yesterday will all be invalid. ---
**Author:** ![balance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/balance/32/1888_2.png) [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/7 "2017-07-10T13:29:08Z")
> [@Lee\_Ars](#): > > bootstrap dance Is this similar to the Safety Dance? @DocDubious, I got logged out, too. ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/8 "2017-07-10T20:43:49Z")
> [@balance](#): > > @DocDubious, I got logged out, too. Me three. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![balance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/balance/32/1888_2.png) [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/9 "2017-07-10T20:55:00Z")
> [@balance](#): > > Is this similar to the Safety Dance? We should be demanding videos if it is. ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/10 "2017-07-11T16:20:54Z")
> [@balance](#): > > Is this similar to the Safety Dance? > > We should be demanding videos if it is. No hats will be allowed in said video. ---
**Author:** ![Woodman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/woodman/32/24_2.png) [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/might-have-some-downtime-later-today-or-tomorrow/1333/11 "2017-07-11T18:19:27Z")
> [@Force10](#): > > No hats will be allowed in said video. Will there be midgets?