Migrate data from an appliance to another

[agaget]

Hello, Is there a way to migrate some data from an appliance to another easily ? We would like to merge datas from differents appliance to a new one (better hardware, redundancy etc...) For now I have manually copied LTS datas of one PV from my old one to the new one. I have added the PV to the new appliance, and changed manually the creationTime JSON info in mysql, but data showed in the viewer or CSS are only datas archived since the creation of the PV in the new appliance. What did i miss ? It would be nice in "Integration" to have a tool to integrate pb file (or maybe there is something I haven't seen or understand) Thanks in advance Alexis

[slacmshankar]

If the appliance is part of the same clusted, you can use the "Change appliance"/reshardPV BPL to move the PV to another appliance in the same cluster. For a completely different appliance, a variation of what you did will work.

• Pause the PV in the original appliance
• Consolidate the data to the LTS
• Export the PVTypeInfo
• Copy over the LTS to the new appliance ( making sure the folder structure reflects the PV's chunkKey )
• Import the PVTypeInfo in the new appliance
• Resume the PV

If you are migrating the appliance completely, this becomes much simpler

• Shutdown the original appliance. This should consolidate the data all the way to the MTS ( if using the default policy )
• rsync the LTS and MTS top level folder to the new appliance
• mysqldump the config from the old appliance and import into the MySQL of the new appliance
• Start the new appliance.

Whatever procedure you use, I'd test it out a couple of times first.

Closing this; please reopen ( or each out ) if you need more assistance.