Hello
We'd like to move from the self installed / open source version of metabase to a managed / cloud version.
Is it possible to export / import our queries and dashboards ?
how ?
Thanks for your help !
Hi there! Yes, the migration to our cloud is a seamless process that migrates everything on your local instance. Check out https://www.metabase.com/cloud/docs/
Really great that this exists, thank you to the Metabase team!
Any chance the migration script also supports adding a self-hosted instance's queries, dashboards etc to an existing cloud instance? We'd love this; we're currently on cloud, but we're also making a separate self-hosted instance so we can use a community driver (Databricks) that isn't official yet. If/when a Databricks driver becomes official, we'd love to merge that self-hosted instance into the cloud instance.
I know this wouldn't be trivial, since ids and foreign keys etc would all need to change, but we'd definitely appreciate it!
@snarfed Not anytime soon. It would require a much much much more difficult process, where we had to use Serialization to dump both instances and then return everything into a single instance.
I doubt if we'll ever be taking on this process fully automatic. There's simply too many things that could break or not work like how it was expected.
We're working on extending Serialization, so it has more "selective" capabilities.
Currently we can provide a snapshot of your Cloud instance, then you would have to do the process yourself, and when everything looks good on your unified instance, then you could migrate back to Cloud.
It's basically the same as unifying any number of instances, however you might have ended up like that, example: Migrate or Copy Metabase Postgres Application Database to Another Postgres
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