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title: Decommission minio
short: Decommission minio

meta_title: Decommission minio

!!! warning
Decommissioning Minio is a hazardous action because you may lose all your data uploaded using direct file upload. For more information or support, contact the Heartex team.

To decommission Minio, do the following:

Configure Persistent Storage

To configure Persistent Storage, follow the instructions in Set up persistent storage.

Upgrade to the latest available Release

1. Add MINIO_MIGRATION: true into global.extraEnvironmentVars section of your ls-values.yaml file:
   shell global: extraEnvironmentVars: MINIO_MIGRATION: true

2. Redeploy a release by following the steps from Upgrade Label Studio Enterprise.

Run migration script

1. Run shell in lse-app pod:
   shell kubectl exec -ti deploy/<YOUR_RELEASE_NAME>-lse-app -c lse-app -- bash

2. Copy data from Minio to a persistent storage:
   shell JSON_LOG=0 python3 $LSE_DIR/label_studio_enterprise/manage.py minio-migrate

Ensure a successful data migration

!!! warning
Minio service will be deleted in the next step.

• Try to run Export in your project.
• Ensure that this data appears in your bucket/volume by project_id/export.

!!! note
For more information or support, contact the Heartex team.

Completely remove Minio service

1. Add the following map to your ls-values.yaml file:
   yaml minio: enabled: false

2. Remove MINIO_MIGRATION: true from global.extraEnvironmentVars section of your ls-values.yaml file.

3. Redeploy a release by following steps from Upgrade Label Studio Enterprise.