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.

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Prerequisites

• Install 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 Edition

setup.sh in the Community Edition now comes with an option to back up your data.

1. Use ./setup.sh to open the operator menu and select 7 to backup your Plane data.
2. When done, your data will be backed up to the folder shown on the screen. e.g., /plane-selfhost/plane-app/backup/20240522-1027
3. This folder will contain 3 tar.gz files.
   • pgdata.tar.gz
   • redisdata.tar.gz
   • uploads.tar.gz
4. Copy all the 3 files from the server running the Community Edition to any folder on the server running Plane One on any folder of your choice.

e.g., ~/ce-backup

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Restore data and install Commercial Edition

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.
4. Install the Commercial Edition.
   • Using Docker
   • Using Kubernetes