How to transfer Database from FreeBSD Jail to Debian?

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Hi does anybody of you know how to backup the database on a FreeBSD Jail and restore in Debian correctly?
I followed the instruction on the InfluxDB Homepage but it looks like its not working.

I want to transfer my database from a FreeBSD jail to my Debian VM.
First I backuped the metastore:

influxd backup /tmp/backup

then the Database:

influxd backup -database graphite /tmp/backup

After this was successful, I copied the folder /tmp/backup from my jail to the Debian VM, same folder in the root.

Within the Debian VM I executed the command:

influxd restore -metadir /var/lib/influxdb/meta /tmp/backup

and then restored the Database:

influxd restore -database graphite -datadir /var/lib/influxdb/data /tmp/backup

finaly I fixed the permissions:

chown -R influxdb:influxdb /var/lib/influxdb

Everything looks fine but when I start Grafana on the Debian VM and select a Value to show within I cant see any old datapoints. So it looks like the restore of the Database was not really successful.

What did I wrong? any suggestions?

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I think I figured out a solution.
I had to modify the config-file of the influxdb within my FreeBSD jail to allow remote access.

bind-address = "0.0.0.0:8088"

After that I logged in into my Debian VM and backuped the Database from the FreeBSD jail with the following command:

influxd backup -portable -host IP_of_FreeBSD_jail:8088 /tmp/backup

then restore the backup:

influxd restore -portable /tmp/backup

influxd use "Database_name"

changed all IP-addresses to the new influxdb-IP, and thats it.