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Move a Coolify project to another server in two terminals

DEV Community: opensource·MOHAMMAD TAGHI·6 days ago
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Moving a Coolify app to a new VPS can mean rebuilding the project, moving database data and volumes, copying environment variables, and sorting out domains by hand. I built Coolify Mirror , a free, open-source tool to make that move super easy to start and simple to review.

Here's the flow:

On the old server , install Coolify Mirror and choose a project, individual resources, or the whole server. It creates an encrypted backup and prints a restore command with a share code.

On the new server , paste that command. The tool downloads and verifies the backup, checks the target, and shows what it plans to restore. Nothing is changed until you confirm.

After the restore, check the running resources and point DNS at the new server.

Try it

SSH into the old server and run:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtalavi/coolify-mirror/main/install.sh | sudo sh

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Choose Back up apps , select your project, and choose to share through Coolify's proxy on port 443.…

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