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The Commercial edition comes with the free plan and the flexibility to upgrade to a paid plan at any point.
IMPORTANTMake sure you already have Commercial Edition installed on a fresh machine before starting this migration. If you haven’t installed it yet, follow our Commercial Edition installation guide first.The instructions provided on this page are specific to installations using Docker. If you are running Plane on Kubernetes, you’ll need to manually create a database dump and back up your file storage by copying the relevant volumes or storage paths.

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Prerequisites

  • Install the Commercial Edition on a fresh machine, not the one running the Plane Community Edition.
  • Be sure to log in as the root user or as a user with sudo access. The /opt folder requires sudo or root privileges.

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Back up data on Community instance

  1. Download the latest version of setup.sh. 
    curl -fsSL https://github.com/makeplane/plane/releases/latest/download/setup.sh -o setup.sh
  2. Run the setup.sh backup script to take the backup of the Community Edition instance. 
    ./setup.sh backup
  3. When done, your data will be backed up to the folder shown on the screen. e.g., /plane-selfhost/plane-app/backup/20240522-1027 This folder will contain 3 tar.gz files.
    • pgdata.tar.gz
    • redisdata.tar.gz
    • uploads.tar.gz
  4. Copy all the three files from the server running the Community Edition to any folder on the server running the Commercial Edition. e.g., ~/ce-backup

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Restore data on Commercial instance

  1. Start any command-line interface like Terminal and go into the folder with the back-up files. 
    cd ~/ce-backup
  2. Copy and paste the script below on Terminal and hit Enter. 
    TARGET_DIR=/opt/plane/data
sudo mkdir -p $TARGET_DIR
for FILE in *.tar.gz; do
    if [ -e "$FILE" ]; then
        tar -xzvf "$FILE" -C "$TARGET_DIR"
    else
        echo "No .tar.gz files found in the current directory."
        exit 1
    fi
done

mv $TARGET_DIR/pgdata/ $TARGET_DIR/db
mv $TARGET_DIR/redisdata/ $TARGET_DIR/redis
mkdir -p $TARGET_DIR/minio
mv $TARGET_DIR/uploads/ $TARGET_DIR/minio/uploads/
  3. This script will extract your Community Edition data and restore it to /opt/plane/data.