How do I change my path to store data?

[haozhuang0000]

Currently my milvus is build under path : /home/user
I want to migrate my milvus database to : /data/user

How can I do this?

[yhmo]

In which way you deployed the milvus?
By docker? https://milvus.io/docs/install_standalone-docker.md
By docker-compose? https://milvus.io/docs/install_standalone-docker-compose.md

[haozhuang0000]

In which way you deployed the milvus? By docker? https://milvus.io/docs/install_standalone-docker.md By docker-compose? https://milvus.io/docs/install_standalone-docker-compose.md

Hi @yhmo , it is by docker. https://milvus.io/docs/install_standalone-docker.md

[yhmo]

Follow these steps:

1. Assume you put the "standalone_embed.sh" under this path /home/user/test, after you run the command bash standalone_embed.sh start, you will see a new file "embedEtcd.yaml" and a new subdirectory named "volumes" under this path:
   

2. Stop the milvus by command bash standalone_embed.sh stop

3. Use the command "docker ps -a" to list all the docker containers, you will see a container named "milvus-standalone"

4. Use the command "docker rm [container_id]" to delete the "milvus-standalone" container

5. Copy the entire directory /home/user/test to /data/user/test

6. Under the /data/user/test, run command bash standalone_embed.sh start again. You will see a new milvus standalone container started, your data is in this container.

[haozhuang0000]

Follow these steps:

1. Assume you put the "standalone_embed.sh" under this path /home/user/test, after you run the command bash standalone_embed.sh start, you will see a new file "embedEtcd.yaml" and a new subdirectory named "volumes" under this path:
   
2. Stop the milvus by command bash standalone_embed.sh stop
3. Use the command "docker ps -a" to list all the docker containers, you will see a container named "milvus-standalone"
4. Use the command "docker rm [container_id]" to delete the "milvus-standalone" container
5. Copy the entire directory /home/user/test to /data/user/test
6. Under the /data/user/test, run command bash standalone_embed.sh start again. You will see a new milvus standalone container started, your data is in this container.

Dear @yhmo ,Thanks for your reply! I followed the steps that you provided.
After I moved my files to /data/user/test, and I restarted milvus, and it stuck here for very long

[yhmo]

If you have a large collection that is loaded in memory, after restart, milvus will automatically load it. A large collection will take long time to load.
If you don't have a large collection, use docker ps -a to observe the milvus container ID, then docker logs -f [container_id] to print the log. There might be WARN/ERROR in the log.

[haozhuang0000]

@yhmo Thanks for helping! Very clear instruction on how to move milvus db to another path