Migrate CE to Pro with Docker¶

Preparation¶

Make sure you are running a Seafile Community edition that match the latest version of pro edition. For example, if the latest pro edition is version 13.0, you should first upgrade the community edition to version 13.0.
Purchase Seafile Professional license file.
Download the .env and seafile-server.yml of Seafile Pro.

wget -O .env https://manual.seafile.com/13.0/repo/docker/pro/env
wget https://manual.seafile.com/13.0/repo/docker/pro/seafile-server.yml
wget https://manual.seafile.com/13.0/repo/docker/pro/elasticsearch.yml

Migrate¶

Stop the Seafile CE¶

docker compose down

Tip

To ensure data security, it is recommended that you back up your MySQL data

Put your licence file¶

Copy the seafile-license.txt to the volume directory of the Seafile CE's data. If the directory is /opt/seafile-data, so you should put it in the /opt/seafile-data/seafile/.

Modify the new seafile-server.yml and .env¶

Modify .env based on the old configurations from the old .env file. The following fields should be paid special attention and others should be the same as the old configurations:

Variable	Description	Default Value
`SEAFILE_IMAGE`	The Seafile pro docker image, which the tag must be equal to or newer than the old Seafile CE docker tag	`seafileltd/seafile-pro-mc:13.0-latest`
`SEAFILE_ELASTICSEARCH_VOLUME`	The volume directory of Elasticsearch data	`/opt/seafile-elasticsearch/data`

For other fileds (e.g., SEAFILE_VOLUME, SEAFILE_MYSQL_VOLUME, SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_USER, SEAFILE_MYSQL_DB_PASSWORD), must be consistent with the old configurations.

Tip

For the configurations using to do the initializations (e.g, INIT_SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL, INIT_SEAFILE_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD), you can remove it from .env as well

Replace `seafile-server.yml` and `.env`¶

Replace the old seafile-server.yml and .env by the new and modified files, i.e. (if your old seafile-server.yml and .env are in the /opt)

mv -b seafile-server.yml /opt/seafile-server.yml
mv -b .env /opt/.env

Modify `seafevents.conf`¶

Add [INDEX FILES] section in /opt/seafile-data/seafile/conf/seafevents.conf manually:

Additional system resource requirements

Seafile PE docker requires a minimum of 4 cores and 4GB RAM because of Elasticsearch deployed simultaneously. If you do not have enough system resources, you can use an alternative search engine, SeaSearch, a more lightweight search engine built on open source search engine ZincSearch, as the indexer.

[INDEX FILES]
es_host = elasticsearch
es_port = 9200
enabled = true
interval = 10m

Start Seafile Pro¶

Run the following command to run the Seafile-Pro container：

docker compose up -d

Now you have a Seafile Professional service.