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Was the downstream cluster created from Rancher UI or imported into Rancher ?

Created with the API, and then docker commands were run on instances to join and register with the cluster

There is no way to transfer between Rancher Servers. You can "import" the old cluster into the new, but you will lose a lot of management abilities. I've pretty much always gone the route of simply building a new cluster and transferring the workloads.

That's where I am now Cody. I was able to get it imported but the management is gone. There must be a way to enable it again. All of the pods that need to be there are there...

From my understanding, there is no way to enable it again. The RMC expects to be involved in the creation of the cluster; else, it can never actually take "ownership" of it and fully manage it. I think there's a Github issue someplace floating around complaining about this from a few years past 😧

Yes, there is. (the github issue) I'm just trying to find some way around re-deploying all of my downstream clusters. Perhaps a tool like Velero. It's interesting that this hasn't been a big enough issue to warrant the feature. Disaster recovery can't always assume the same instances are there.