Exporting data from Alfresco 5.2 and importing them to Alfresco 7.3

[cajova_houba]

Hello,

we're currently running two Alfrescos. The first one is an old instance which runs Alfresco 5.2, the scond one is newer instance, which runs Alfresco 7.3 (both community editions). I would like to export data from the first instance (Alfresco 5.2) and then import them to the new one, ideally using some tool and not dumping DB and manually merging it into the new instance - I'm not sure if that's even possible.

I've found tool for this: https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/5.2/admin/import-transfer/

My questions are:

 - is this data transfer possible between different versions of Alfresco? In my case, I need to transfer data from v5.2 to v7.3

 - is this tool available for community edition as well?

 - we need to migrate ~ 180GBs of data, is this feasible?

 - if this is not the right tool to use, could you please recommend something else?

Thanks in advance!

[fedorow · Accepted solution]

There is no tool to transfer whole repository. You must export documents. Look at https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-bulk-export . You will get directory sctucture with content files and metadata in .xml files. The format is the same as for the Bulk import.

Pay atantion to transfer the custom content models, users and permissions before you will import documents. The https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-export-scripts could help too.

Unswering on your questions:

• As it is files with it's properties, it is independent from Alfresco versions.
• The 180GB is a small contentstore.
• Install bulkexport.amp into 5.2 and use Bulk import out of the box in 7.3.

p.s. test everything first on test envoronment.

[cajova_houba]

Great! Thank you very much for your assistance