How to properly restore an Appwrite backup?

I have two separate servers both running Appwrite 1.6.0. I am trying to move all the data from the Appwrite instance running on Server A to the one running on Server B.

This is how I have gone about it:

1. Took a dump of the DB on server A
2. Created a volume backup of appwrite uploads and functions on Server A
3. Copied the db dump and the backup volumes to server B
4. Set the OPENSSL key to match on both servers
5. Restored the db
6. Restored the volumes
7. Ran docker migrate to finish up the migration

Now after doing all this, I launch the console and try to login, I get an invalid credentials error. Now the smtp config is setup fine on server B so I reset the password and login. From the console, I can see that everything is there in the database, however when I go to the storage section, the files are there, but they are still encrypted, the images show broken links and can’t be previewed. What exactly is it that I am missing here?

Also, I am running both servers on Coolify, so if there is a simpler way of doing this, please let me know

Try recreating the containers and dump the redis cache from the server B

Ah I see, how can I take a backup of the redis cache?

I think you can just invalidate it and then restart appwrite

Don't try in the working server but in testing/B instance just in case

Also, the docs strictly prohibit doing this https://appwrite.io/docs/advanced/self-hosting/production

Where?

Not the answer to your questions, but after few migrations I needed to do on different versions of appwrite (1.5.x and 1.6.0 recently) and trying DB dump/restore & Migrations functionality in console I am now sticking to few simple scripts utilizing server API, here is an example (beware, somewhat old appwrite-nodejs version plus implementation for storage doesn't restore metadata like per file access and file names - I created my own version). Rate limites could be disabled temporary if possible to speed up, otherwise it could be an overnightly migration (main delay will be with storage, took me around 40 min for 5 Gb in JPEG in my project). https://github.com/react-declarative/appwrite-backup-tool

here is what I used for migration instance to instance https://codefile.io/f/UYGDQCbXFt