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Document extra site migration steps #675
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Update https://ocdsdeploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy/create_server.html#existing-service
Add pausing/unpausing Pingdom and setting MDRenewMode to the generic instructions.
We can also add a dump/restore section to https://ocdsdeploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/maintain/mysql.html like at https://ocdsdeploy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/maintain/databases.html#pg-dump-and-pg-restore
from #672 (comment) about the plan in #672 (comment)
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RobHooper commentedon Oct 6, 2026
From create_server page
This can be updated to exclude Cloudflare records - Cloudflare automatically mange TTLs for us on proxied records so there is nothing to do in most situations.
jpmckinney commentedon Oct 6, 2026
Btw, what do we use to copy Elasticsearch indexes across servers?
jpmckinney commentedon Oct 6, 2026
I did a little reformatting of create_server.rst for readability, in case you're working on it.
jpmckinney commentedon Oct 6, 2026
I don't think we have a step anywhere for "Sync website data" for WordPress.
RobHooper commentedon Oct 7, 2026
jpmckinney commentedon Oct 7, 2026
At what point do we remove
MDRenewMode manual(which a normal deploy would do)?RobHooper commentedon Oct 7, 2026
We can disable MDRenewMode any time after DNS is live.
This setting stops mod_md from requesting certs, removing the risk of rate-limiting from the LetsEncrypt API when we need it.
I was wondering if there is value in a site "development" mode to set this (and anything else like disabling site crons) programmatically via Pillar?
RobHooper commentedon Oct 7, 2026
I believe we used Snapshot + Restore, but it has been a while since we last migrated ES.
jpmckinney commentedon Oct 7, 2026
We can do something like in #679 perhaps