Discussion on: Forem Selfhost. Restoring a database.

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Replies for: Ah yes it does, it validates that Selfhost can run with the db on RDS, I can see the @jdoss has commented that you can just specify the following ...

@jdoss said that should work, so looking forward to hearing more from you about how you get on with it!

It doesn't :( everything is in place, there are no errors from the build, jsut no database is commissioned so the app isn't available. Have reverted back to local but it would be good to be able to abstract the DB in RDS and take advantage of all the cool backup and scalability features 😎

Ella (she/her/elle) • Aug 19 '21

Another question (sorry, I know you're here for answers 😉): are you attempting this with a life-and-in-person Forem?

If I understand @jdoss correctly, you either need to

stop your Forem, dump the DB, import it to the RDS and then edit the Forem configs to point it at your RDS instance

Alternatively,

start it from scratch for Ansible to write these changes

If not, this is curiouser and curiouser (and I'll be happy to continue relaying questions to our team for ideas on why it's not working).