# How to restore Templates and Projects ? **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** awx\ **Created:** [August 28, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-restore-templates-and-projects/28441 "2018-08-28T11:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vi\_Kan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b3f665/32.png) [@Vi\_Kan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vi_Kan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-restore-templates-and-projects/28441/1 "2018-08-28T11:54:29Z")
Hi! Unfortunately, I ran into problem with upgrading awx to 1.0.7. I had tried to update existing awx. Now my instance doesn’t work. Than I made a dump of awx database, made fresh install and imported it. Now I can login to my instance and all my settings exist here except Templates and Projects. I use docker installation method with external project\_data\_dir so my projects are present in container. Is there any way to restore them into awx? P.S. I’ve tried to get objects via tower-cli but without any luck. ---
**Author:** ![Soniya\_panwar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Soniya\_panwar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Soniya_panwar)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-restore-templates-and-projects/28441/2 "2019-04-29T06:47:03Z")
Hello Kan, AWX does not provide any integrated solution to perform backup and restore and therefore the upgrades and migrations can only be performed as a fresh installation. In AWX there does exist a workaround, which involves copying the PostgreSQL data directory and using the same with a fresh installation to restore the backup. In order to implement the workaround we need to perform following steps: 1. Stop the PostgreSQL docker container and copy the content of /var/lib/pgdocker directory on awx node to the same directory on awx-2 node: $ docker stop \ $ scp -r ./pgdocker awx-2:/var/lib/ 2. Edit inventory file in installer directory on awx-2 node and provide the location of pgdocker directory in postgres\_data\_dir variable: Set value of “postgres\_data\_dir” in inventory file $ vi inventory postgres\_data\_dir = \ 3. Install AWX as a fresh installation in awx-2 node using the modified inventory file: $ ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml –vv 4. The backed up content of awx will be visible on awx-2 dashboard. Thanks Soniya ---
**Author:** ![Ankit2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ankit2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ankit2)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-restore-templates-and-projects/28441/3 "2019-04-29T06:52:02Z")
Are you sure this will work if the versions are different for both AWX setups? ---
**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-restore-templates-and-projects/28441/4 "2019-04-29T08:39:11Z")
If I am not mistaken the preferred way to upgrade is to use tower-cli to do an export. Wipe the containers. Reinstall the containers and then reimport through tower-cli. Note credentials and job history is not backed up. The reason why this is because the team may make sudden changes to database tables and such. Exporting through towsr-cli allows you to preserve this albiet those two things. ---
**Author:** ![Soniya\_panwar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Soniya\_panwar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Soniya_panwar)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-restore-templates-and-projects/28441/5 "2019-05-02T10:10:10Z")
Hello Wei-Yen Tan, Yes, there are two options available to perform data migration from the old AWX instance to the new upgraded AWX instance: 1. Making use of tower-cli send/receive feature as described in following link: [https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/DATA\_MIGRATION.md](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/DATA_MIGRATION.md) . Please note, this option would not migrate system settings, scheduled jobs and permissions. These are to be migrated manually. 2. Taking a backup of the directory where the PostgreSQL DB is stored and doing a fresh installation after setting postgres\_data\_dir parameter in inventory file. However, please note this option would not perform the backup of venv variables and configuration files of AWX. Thanks Soniya