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I can't migrate my project from Appwrite Cloud to a self-hosted Appwrite instance.

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11 Jul, 2026, 08:23

I'm having an issue migrating my Appwrite project to a self-hosted instance. The problem is that I've exceeded my read rate limit (or database read limit), so I'm unable to migrate my data. I also can't even download my database tables as CSV files.

Here's the output from the Appwrite CLI:

TypeScript
appwrite init project

? Select a setup method: Link this directory to an existing project

? Choose your organization: ---------

? Choose your project: ---------

? Pull all resources from this project? Yes

Project linked → appwrite.config.json

Info: Agent skills already found. Skipping installation.

Info: Pulling project settings ...
Success: Successfully pulled all project settings.

Info: No functions found.
Success: Successfully pulled 0 functions.

Info: No sites found.
Success: Successfully pulled 0 sites.

Info: Fetching tables ...

Info: For detailed error pass the --verbose or --report flag

Error: Database reads limit for the current billing cycle has been exceeded. Please upgrade to a higher plan or update your budget cap.

I've also attached a screenshot of the migration page from the Appwrite UI.

What can I do in this situation? All of my data is stored in this project, and I can't access it in any way—not through migration, the CLI, or even by exporting the tables as CSV.

TL;DR
Unable to migrate project from Appwrite Cloud to self-hosted instance due to exceeded read rate limit. Cannot download database tables as CSV either. Solution: Upgrade to a higher plan or adjust budget cap to resolve the issue.
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