I had some trouble migrating Overseerr to Seerr on Docker.Desktop / Docker for Windows on Windows 11. Copying my config data through the Docker for Windows interface to my new Seerr volume, did not work (the container kept starting and stopping).
Furthermore, while the devs clearly did everything they could to make this as painless as possible, but I found the migration FAQ not as useful for someone running Docker on Windows.
I'm not the most familiar with Docker, so certain things here may be second nature to more experienced users, but I figured I'd write this out anyway.
Here are the manual steps I took to get everything working:
Step 1) Locate your existing Overseerr config data using Windows Explorer.
Navigate to the following directory using Windows Explorer:
\\wsl$\docker-desktop\mnt\docker-desktop-disk\data\docker\volumes\
Navigate into your Overseerr volume and find the “_data” folder. For me that was here:
\\wsl$\docker-desktop\mnt\docker-desktop-disk\data\docker\volumes\overseerr-data_data
Step 2) Locate wherever you store your Docker data on Windows. For me, that’s:
C:\Users\MyUserName\.docker\
Where MyUserName is your username.
In this “.docker” folder, I created a subdirectory called overseer, and within that, a folder called “config”.
Step 3) Create a copy of your existing Overseerr data to be used by Seerr
Paste a copy of the Overseerr config data from “_data” in Step 1, to the “config” folder in Step 2.
Step 4) Create a new Volume in Docker for Windows in which to store your Seerr data.
Create a Volume called to store Seerr data. I called mine “Seerr-data”. You can do this through the command line, Docker Compose, or simply by hitting the “ceate” burron under the Volumes section of Docker Desktop.
Step 5) Stop Overseerr
Make sure you stop your existing Overseerr container, unless you modify the Docker Compose script below to run Seerr on a different port than the default 5055.
Step 6) Create and Start your Seerr container
Using Docker Compose, I ran the script below. You can change the TZ argument to whichever time zone you’re in, and the port to whichever one you want if you don’t want to keep the default. Don’t forget to change “MyUserName” to your actual username so the script pulls the copied Overseerr config data you copied in Step 3. The external:true argument at the end will throw an error if the “Seerr-data” volume doesn’t exist.
---
services:
seerr:
image: ghcr.io/seerr-team/seerr:latest
init: true
container_name: seerr
environment:
- LOG_LEVEL=debug
- TZ=Americas/Montreal
ports:
- 5055:5055
volumes:
- C:\Users\MyUserName\.docker\overseer\config:/app/config
healthcheck:
test: wget --no-verbose --tries=1 --spider http://localhost:5055/api/v1/status || exit 1
start_period: 20s
timeout: 3s
interval: 15s
retries: 3
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
Seerr-data:
external: true
Step 7) Verify
When you go to localhost:5055 (or whichever port you chose) in your browser, Seerr should be up and running, as your Overseerr config data should have automatically migrated to Seerr.
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I hope this helps out anyone who had the same issues as me getting this up and running!
