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How to migrate from Alfresco Content Services to Alfresco Community?

yolanda — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:26:49 GMT

Hello!

We want leaving the paid version and moving to the Community.

Right now we have a very very old version (3.4.14 Enterprise with Oracle as a database) and we want to update as much as possible. From that update (I don't know if it will be 7.0 due to platform support) move to a Community , since the use is only shared storage.

Would this be possible? Has anyone tried? Should we move from Oracle to MySQL?

Any contribution is welcome.

Thank you very much in advance!

Re: How to migrate from Alfresco Content Services to Alfresco Community?

angelborroy — Fri, 06 May 2022 07:18:14 GMT

The right approach could be:

1) Migrate Oracle DB to Postgres or MySQL (in 3.4.14)

2) Switch to Community version (in 3.4.14)

3) Upgrade Alfresco to 4.1.x

4) Upgrade Alfresco to 5.2.x

5) Upgrade Alfresco to 6.2.x

6) Upgrade Alfresto to 7.2.x

Re: How to migrate from Alfresco Content Services to Alfresco Community?

fedorow — Fri, 06 May 2022 09:35:35 GMT

Hi Angel!

The official upgrade path assume direct upgrade from 5.2.x to 7.2. What are the reasons you recommend additional step (5) to upgrade to 6.2.x ?

Thanks,

Serge

Re: How to migrate from Alfresco Content Services to Alfresco Community?

angelborroy — Fri, 06 May 2022 11:26:33 GMT

You're right, @fedorow

That intermediate upgrading from 5.2.x to 6.2.x can be skipped.

Re: How to migrate from Alfresco Content Services to Alfresco Community?

cesarista — Fri, 06 May 2022 12:27:34 GMT

Hi Serge,

In general, although it is possible to go directly for small repos, but you may need to pass with Alfresco 6.2 because of Search Services.

Imagine that you have a production service with some millions of documents that require a long reindexing time (for example several weeks). In 5.2, you will use ASS 1.x index, but in 7.2 you can't. So you need to use 6.2 to reuse 1.x index, and then rebuild indices with ASS 2.x for going until 7.2.

Kind regards.

--C.

Re: How to migrate from Alfresco Content Services to Alfresco Community?

yolanda — Mon, 09 May 2022 07:29:35 GMT

Hello Ángel!

Thank you very much for your answer.

We will try to do it .
I hope the move from Oracle to MySQL isn't too traumatic.

Thank you very much.

Yolanda.

Re: How to migrate from Alfresco Content Services to Alfresco Community?

yolanda — Mon, 09 May 2022 07:33:12 GMT

Hi Cesarista.

Thank you for your advise.

Kind regards,

Yolanda.