Peertube: Account migration

[yPhil-gh]

Is there a way to move a video from instance A to instance B, re-encode it on instance B, delete it frome instance A and keep the page views tally count?

[Chocobozzz]

What you're looking for is the account migration feature. It's not implemented sorry.

[Deuchnord]

I would also be interested in a way to migrate user data from an instance to another, as I have planned to open my own instance in the future :slightly_smiling_face:

[FinlayDaG33k]

Has there been any updates on this matter?

[rigelk]

@FinlayDaG33k no update on the matter, no. Otherwise the issue would have been updated accordingly ;)

As for the issue documentation, maybe some interesting read under the viewpoint of backup/restore procedures: https://the-federation.info/specs/backup-restore/

[ghost]

relevant https://www.reddit.com/r/PeerTube/comments/ekmjeb/peertubevideo_one_of_the_largest_instances_is/

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Btw this is how Mastodon is doing Account (Server) Migration https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-one-server-to-another/

[rigelk]

Before we tackle any form of automatic account migration, we could implement simple import/export of:

• [ ] actors followed by the user
• [ ] actors blocked by the user
• [ ] settings
• [ ] video channels
• [ ] videos
• [ ] playlists

[trymeouteh]

An account import/export feature would be cool to have which could be made for channels and those who use Peertube to follow, like and comment on videos.

Channels Import/Export

• Videos & Audios
• Video/Audio Like/Dislikes
• Video Comments
• Channel Subscribers
• Chanel Playlists
• Settings

Users

• Subscriptions
• Like/Dislikes
• Comments
• Playlists
• Settings

[trymeouteh]

I made this suggestion for channels on how Peertube could implement a automatic cloud storage backup system for channels.
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/3082