This document outlines how to migrate your Tines self-hosted tenant to another deployment. It explains how to take an RDS Snapshot, delete the old database, and restore the RDS Snapshot to a new deployment.

In the event of a disaster, Restoring an RDS Snapshot outlines how to restore your Tines tenant.

Taking an RDS Snapshot 

Step 1: Go to the AWS Console.

Step 2: Go to Elastic Container Service.

Step 3: Go to the appropriate Cluster.

Step 4: You will see that you have the tines-app and tines-sidekiq services running.

Step 5: Go to RDS.

Step 6: Select Databases in the menu on the left of the screen.

Step 7: Go to the appropriate database.

Step 8: Go to the Actions dropdown in the upper right corner of the screen.

Step 9: Select Take Snapshot.

Step 10: Give the snapshot a name and click Take Snapshot. You will see that the snapshot is being created. Please allow time for the operation to complete.

Deleting the Database (Optional) 

Step 11: Go to Databases. Go to the appropriate database.

Step 12: Go to the Actions dropdown in the upper right corner and select Delete. The database will be deleted. This may take a few minutes, please allow it time to complete. 

Restoring an RDS Snapshot 

Step 13: Select the snapshot. Go to the Actions dropdown in the upper right corner and select Restore Snapshot.

Step 14: Enter the name of the DB instance.

Step 15: Select the Existing VPC Security Group for the DB instance.

Step 16: Proceed with restoring the snapshot. The restoration of the snapshot may take a few minutes. Please allow the operation time to complete. 

Step 17: Go to the Elastic Container Service and select the appropriate Cluster.

Step 18: Select both tasks (tines-app, tines-sidekiq) and stop the tasks. The task definitions are set to restart the tasks if they are down, so wait for the tasks to come back up.