Migration Checklist

The following is a list of general tasks for migrating your data to an online or new Historian system.
  1. Verify that you are familiar with the setup recommendations. How?
  2. Estimate the number of archives that Historian will create during migration and verify that you have enough disk space to accommodate the new archives and backups of those archives. How?
  3. Migrate all collection groups. How?

    If you are migrating to an online Historian system and tags exist in the iFIX database, the collector begins collecting on those tags.

  4. Export tag configuration information.
  5. Migrate Classic Historical data or, How?
  6. Migrate Advanced Historical data or, How?
  7. Backup the newly created archives. How?
  8. Start your collectors if they are not already running.
  9. Verify migrated data through one of the following options:
    • iFIX chart
    • Raw data dump into OLE DB
    • Classic Historian log file
    • Data Readback Verification option in the Classic (optional) and Advanced (automatic) Migration utilities.