One of the most frequently asked questions is how to move an existing Supervisely instance from one machine/cloud to another machine/cloud? It's actually very easy.

Step 1. Install Supervisely on a new machine

Install supervisely-cli, run supervisely auth <key> with the key provided to you before and run sudo supervisely install-all to get all the necessary dependencies on a new server. You can check this document. It is a good idea to pick the same config and data folders as on old server, but it is not nessessary.

Step 2. Move configuration to a new machine

Locate configuration folder on a new and old machine via sudo supervisely where command (run on both servers — usually, /opt/supervisely).

Now, copy this folder from old machine to a new one — do not forget to copy both docker-compose.yml and .env files. For example:

# on the old server
rsync -azP /opt/supervisely new_server:/opt/supervisely/

Step 3. Move data to a new machine

If you store data on the local drive

Locate data folder on a new and old machine via sudo supervisely where data command (run on both servers — usually, /supervisely/data).

First, stop an existing instance via sudo supervisely stop. Now, copy the folder from the old machine to the new one. For example:

# on the old server
rsync -azP /supervisely/data new_server:/supervisely/data

If you store data on external storage (i.e. S3)

In this case you will need to copy data from the cloud via some external utility. We suggest to use minio as in this tutorial.

Step 4. Start the new instance

We are done with the old server — you can run it back again via sudo superviselu up -d. On the new machine, login the the docker registry via sudo supervisely login and initialise instance via sudo supervisely upgrade --skip-backup.