Replication Server Migration is a feature to avoid bandwidth usage and reduce the replication time needed for a full backup over Internet. Using this feature, you can transfer the backup data from the backup server into a local external drive and then physically move the drive to the Replication Server environment to migrate the data into the replication server.
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Make sure the backup data that you want to migrate to the replication server is complete and the client machines are not backing up. To make sure the client machines (whose backup data you are trying migrate) don’t during the migration, deactivate the clients in the backup server.
Please note: If a full backup already exists in the Replication Server then you cannot migrate just the incremental backup data of this full backup.
Also, additional full backups along with its incremental backups cannot be migrated. Only additional full backup data without incremental backups can be migrated. Therefore as soon as the additional full backup is complete, deactivate the backup schedule in the backup server. This is to ensure that there are no further incremental backup is run from the client. Then start the replication migration process for that additional full backup.
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Disable replication in the Backup Server from the ‘Server Admin > Replication Management > Configure Replication’ page.
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Connect an external device to the local backup server.
Copy the clients’ data (<Server_Location>/1 directory) to it. For example, if the backups are stored in a location "C:\LocalStorage", copy the "C:\LocalStorage\1" folder to the external device.
After copying the client data on an external drive, you can activate the clients in the backup server by going to Server Admin-> Customer Management page; so that backups from the clients can resume.
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Next connect the external drive to the remote Replication Server.
Copy the data from the external drive to some location in the remote Replication Server, say C:\MigrateData\1. You can leave it in the external drive itself and migrate directly from the external drive but the migration might take a little longer.
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In the top menu in the remote replication server StoreGrid web console, go to ‘Server Admin->Customer Management’ and click on the ‘Replication Server Migration’ icon on the left hand side.
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Enter the location of the 1/ folder (for e.g.: C:\MigrateData\1) and click the ‘Submit Location’ button.
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The list of clients along with their backup server name is shown.
Choose the clients which are to be migrated and select their respective customers. If a client is already replicating under a particular customer, then the ‘Migrate to Customer’ and the ‘New Location’ fields will not be selectable for that client.
If the target customer is not listed, choose Default Customer as the target customer and migrate the client to it. Once the replication runs from the backup server (after doing Replication Server Migration) to the replication server for the migrated clients, the customer under which the client is listed in the backup server will be automatically created in the Replication Server and the client will be moved from Default Customer to the particular customer under which the client is backing up in the Backup Server.
After configuring all the necessary details, click the "Migrate" button.
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The backup data (data in the 1/ folder) will be migrated to the remote replication server.
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Enable replication status in the backup server by going to ‘Server Admin > Replication Management > Configure Replication’ page in the backup server.
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To make sure the data has been migrated successfully to the replication server, try scheduling a replication for one of the clients by clicking the ‘Replicate Now’ icon in the ‘Customer Management > Customer > Client > List of Backup Schedules’ page in the backup server’s web console. It should not replicate anything or just replicate the additional backup data that came into the backup server since replication migration.
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