Prepare the System for Migration

Enterprise Administration > File Vaulting and Replication > File Vaulting > Working with External File Vaults > Configuring Windchill File Vaults to Use Amazon S3 > Vault Migration to Amazon S3 > Prepare the System for Migration

Perform the following steps to complete the preparatory work like such as performing re-vaulting, synchronizing, removing unreferenced files, and mark Root Folder read- only.

1. Run re-vaulting schedule for Vault, if vault is main vault.

2. Cancel and disable content replication schedules for Vault, if vault is Replica vault.

3. Using a JMX client such as JConsole, perform the CacheVaultSynchronizer MBean sysForceSync operation.

4. Perform Remove Unreferenced Files and Define Content Cleanup Rules > Run cleanup now operations for Vault, so that only valid content is migrated to Amazon S3.

5. If you want to retain the content as is while moving to Vault, then create a new RootFolder and mount it on Amazon S3. For more information, see the topic Configuring Windchill File Vaults to use Amazon S3.

6. Run the following command to set your vault as Automatic Folder Creation.

windchill wt.fv.tools.FolderToRootFolderConverter

7. Set the file based RootFolders that you plan to migrate, as READ_ONLY from the vault configuration user interface. This ensures that no new content is uploaded to file based RootFolders, while its contents are migrated.

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