# Pterodactyl panel and wings migration

> Source: <https://gist.github.com/trenutoo/c18258658bef28e73b24d11d02d24915>
> Published: 2021-05-04 13:16:21+00:00

# Pterodactyl Migration

## Migrating panel

1. Backup your hidden `.env` file containing the decryption APP_KEY from `/var/www/pterodactyl`
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2. Export the database, in this case ours is named **panel**

    ```mysql
    mysqldump -u root -p --opt panel > /var/www/pterodactyl/panel.sql
    ```

    The *.sql* file would be saved in the `/var/www/pterodactyl/` folder.
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3. Follow the panel [installation documentation](https://pterodactyl.io/panel/1.0/getting_started.html) to install the panel on your new server.
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4. Transfer the `panel.sql` file to your new server and import the database. Make sure you're in the folder containing your *.sql* dump when performing the commands.

    ```mysql
    mysql -u root -p panel < panel.sql
    ```

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5. After this, transfer your old `.env` file to the `/var/www/pterodactyl` location to complete the panel migration.

## Migrating Wings

1. Follow the Wings [installation documentation](https://pterodactyl.io/wings/1.0/installing.html) to install Wings on your new machine.

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2. Once new Wings are configured, migrate all your volumes from your old machine to the new one. By default, the path would be `/var/lib/pterodactyl/volumes/`. Check your Wings `config.yml` for your configured data path.

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### Updating allocations

After the migration of volumes is done, you must update all the allocations since your IP most likely has changed.
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Type ```hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'``` on your Wings machine to retrieve the IP. After that, login to your Panel machine to modify the database.

In the example below, we assume that the database name is `panel`. Replace `newiphere`with the IP returned from the hostname command above while `oldiphere` with the IP of your old allocation.

```mysql
mysql -u root -p
UPDATE panel.allocations SET ip = 'newiphere' WHERE ip = 'oldiphere';
exit
```