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Bulk content migration

tfrith
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
I need to migrate a large amount of content from one windows Alfresco 3.2r repo to a new ubuntu Alfresco 3.4.5 repo and I'm looking for options/recommendations.  I'm not migrating the entire repository though.

I've read about Open Migrate and the Bulk File System Import Tool (BFSIT) and ACPs.

I think the volume is too large to use an ACP and much of the data has multiple versions - does an ACP include all versions and their meta-data?

Ryan from Zia had a good write up about using Open Migrate to write nodes to the file system in a format that BFSIT can use.  But his source wasn't an Alfresco repo.  Apparently Open Migrate is coming out with an Alfresco source but it's not released yet and I've read that it will not support multiple versions of content.  That would leave me writing my own Alfresco source (or modifying theirs if I can get the code) as well as writing my own target for BFSIT format (unless they have that too coming).

My other thought was to write my own code to export to the file system in BFSIT-compatible format.  As of now this is the option I'm leaning toward.

I'm wondering if anyone else has tried something like this or has ideas/suggestions/tools that could help.
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bchevallereau
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi
Do you think about the Talend option ?
I used it for a big customer with very good results.
Ben

romschn
Star Collaborator
Star Collaborator
Hi,

Could you please let me know what is Talend option? Kindly elaborate more on it.

I have a requirement of copying data from one alfresco repository to another where in I can not use ACP.

Thanks,

unknown-user
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
We did a similar migration from one Alfresco repository to another by combining the features of OpenMigrate and Alfresco Bulk Import Tool as mentioned in the below link. OpenMigrate comes with an Alfresco Source adapter that can be embedded within the source Alfresco instance as a subsytem. You can also run the migration as a scheduled job.

http://www.ziaconsulting.com/technology/alfresco-content-migration/

jameela
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Thanks for sharing link  Smiley Very Happy