# NixOps with state stored on target machine?
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixops-with-state-stored-on-target-machine/4112
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [September 20, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixops-with-state-stored-on-target-machine/4112 "2019-09-20T20:14:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@generic-specialty](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/generic-specialty)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixops-with-state-stored-on-target-machine/4112/1 "2019-09-20T20:14:08Z")
I’m using a small VPS to hosts a website and a SQL database for that website, both on the same machine.
How can I migrate this machine to NixOps so that the database is not overwritten every time I deploy new code for the website?
If it means anything, I’m using DigitalOcean, but j cannot currently afford to use their external/managed database service.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@aanderse](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/aanderse)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixops-with-state-stored-on-target-machine/4112/2 "2019-09-20T20:24:33Z")
The database won’t be overwritten. What made you think it will be?
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### Author:  [@generic-specialty](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/generic-specialty)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixops-with-state-stored-on-target-machine/4112/3 "2019-09-20T20:26:22Z")
Oh, the disk isn’t overwritten? Oh, awesome!
For some reason, I thought the entire disk was wiped.
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### Author:  [@aanderse](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/aanderse)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixops-with-state-stored-on-target-machine/4112/4 "2019-09-20T20:29:03Z")
So migrating to nixops may or may not require you to wipe the disk depending how you choose to install, but nixops deploy will not.