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Project migration between servers-Incomplete WayneH  2021-06-30 07:19
Status: Closed
 

Good morning,

we recently ran into an issue migrating a project between servers in our v18.2 community edition. We are preparing to migrate to a licensed current version but are really concerned about the problem we ran into.. On two different occasions one user's migration did not transfer over complete subfolder contents. I myself performed the same using the export/import tools and found that everything transferred over except for the file repository and the assay data (designs, batch/run data and tables). In my case I selected all of the options including files and all subfolder content.
The project is separated into three folders. One main folder and two subfolders within it. The assay data and file repository is in one of those subfolders. The assay data is in the top level folder although the designs/templates are in the subfolder where the file repository is located. I believe this is the structure we have.
Any thoughts on why we're having trouble migrating the project completely?

Thanks

Wayne
 
 
Jon (LabKey DevOps) responded:  2021-07-13 15:24
Hi Wayne,

Based on what I'm understanding you're doing here, it sounds like you're choosing to do this migration via Folder Import/Exports, which although is possible to do, it isn't necessarily the best option.

We've made a significant number of bug fixes since 18.2 when it comes to the Folder Import/Export functionality, which includes better data retention, so the experience where you are unable to move files from the filecontent area and subfolders does work in much later versions of LabKey.

You indicated that you are "preparing to migrate to a licensed current version", but I'm not sure what that means exactly. What specific version and distribution of LabKey are you looking to migrate over to?

With regards to migration, is the ability to do a database dump and restore from your old server to the new one (and copying your file repository as well) not possible? Ideally, if the plan is to take an old server and migrate the data to a new server, copying the database and file repository over from server to server is a lot more efficient than trying to use the LabKey UI to Export every project and Import it in to the new LabKey UI manually.

Regards,

Jon