OpenWGA 7.10 - OpenWGA Concepts and Features

This task type is available only to the OpenWGA Enterprise Edition.

The Content Store Migration is a tool to migrate the complete content data from one OpenWGA content store into another. It can migrate the following source database types:

• WGA Content Stores of any types and versions
  
• Custom Lotus Domino Databases
  

The types of source and target database do not need to match. Therefor you can use the migrator to change the database platform that you want to use. You can also use the migrator to migrate your data into a newer content store version, for example if you wish to use features of OpenWGA Content Store Version 5.

While the migration is able to migrate all of the content data, including all archived content versions and drafts, it is not able to transport the following special data:

• Workflow definitions
  
• Document histories
  

Before performing a migration the following prerequisites should be ensured:

• Data that is already stored on the target database will be completely erased on the migration. Ensure that no valuable data is destroyed.
• Ensure that the data format of the source database is valid. You might want to run Content Store Validation on it before migrating.
• Ensure that the target database allows data in the size that your source database contains. Sometimes problems may let the migration cancel because sizes of target columns are not able to take the amount of value that comes from the source. In that case you need to enlargen the target column - if possible - and retry migration.