topic Combine separate Alfresco installations into single multi-tenancy setup - how to do data migration? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/combine-separate-alfresco-installations-into-single-multi/m-p/285945#M239075 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Does anyone have experience or know of the process to convert several existing completely separate Alfresco instances into a single multi-tenacy setup?&nbsp; Is there a defined process to do the data migration?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In terms of details what we are looking at is:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Existing Alfresco Community 4.2.x each with separate MySQL databases on completely separate servers</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Goal is to upgrade to 5.0.d and then condense to a single Alfresco server with data stored in Amazon RDS.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ray</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:24:35 GMT ray_muirhead 2016-02-19T02:24:35Z Combine separate Alfresco installations into single multi-tenancy setup - how to do data migration? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/combine-separate-alfresco-installations-into-single-multi/m-p/285945#M239075 Does anyone have experience or know of the process to convert several existing completely separate Alfresco instances into a single multi-tenacy setup?&nbsp; Is there a defined process to do the data migration?In terms of details what we are looking at is:Existing Alfresco Community 4.2.x each with separ Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:24:35 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/combine-separate-alfresco-installations-into-single-multi/m-p/285945#M239075 ray_muirhead 2016-02-19T02:24:35Z Re: Combine separate Alfresco installations into single multi-tenancy setup - how to do data migration? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/combine-separate-alfresco-installations-into-single-multi/m-p/285946#M239076 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>On each of the server, do you have same content model or each of them are having different content model altogether?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you are intending to combine multiple servers to a single one then there are couple of things to consider.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>1. Users and group migration (it may possible that a same user exists on multiple alfresco server, while moving to a single server, duplication should be avoided. Similarly for Group as well)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2. Migrate the content to a single instance. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Per my understanding, with the earlier version of Alfresco, Alfresco export/import tools can help achieve this. There would be some bit of customization required to it however. You can explore about export/import tools further if you can use them for the recent version of Alfresco.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you are using enterprise edition, it would be a good idea to contact alfresco support to progress in a step-by-step effective way.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps.</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:23:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/combine-separate-alfresco-installations-into-single-multi/m-p/285946#M239076 romschn 2016-02-19T08:23:36Z