Upgrade from Community to Commercial Edition
The Commercial edition comes with the free plan and the flexibility to upgrade to a paid plan at any point.
IMPORTANT
Make 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.
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.
Back up data on Community instance
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Download the latest version of
setup.sh
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Run the setup.sh backup script to take the backup of the Community Edition instance.
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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 3tar.gz
files.pgdata.tar.gz
redisdata.tar.gz
uploads.tar.gz
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Copy all the 3 files from the server running the Community Edition to any folder on the server running the Commercial Edition on any folder of your choice.
e.g.,
~/ce-backup
Restore data on Commercial instance
- Start any command-line interface like Terminal and go into the folder with the back-up files.
- Copy and paste the script below on Terminal and hit Enter.
- This script will extract your Community Edition data and restore it to
/opt/plane/data
.