iwmigrate TS-672 to TS-741 workarea contents are overlapping to other workarea

we are doing the migration from TS-672 sp1 to TS-741. It is a fresh installation in windows platform.
We want to migrate a particular branch (all workareas under the branch)alone needs to be migrated.

Following is the approach we followed.

1. took the default store from TS-672 after shutting down.
2. copied to under TS-741\iw-store dir in the name of default_672
3. ran the command: iwstoreadm.exe -a default_672 - the is up and the contents are there.
4. ran the command: iwstoreadm.exe -d default - do down the default store.
5. ran the command to imgrate default_672 to default: iwmigrate -m Y:\default_672 -o C:\iw-store\default -b /default_672/main/mybrancg -d -w.

The migration is success without any error, but it creates an empty workarea called "temp_workare" also another major issue is one workarea content is copied to other workarea also.

For eg.

WORKAREA\wa1\dir1\file1_from_wa1 - this is ok
WORKAREA\wa2\dir2\file2_from_wa2 - this is ok

WORKAREA\wa1\dir2\file2_from_wa2 - this the is issue. this file belongs to wa2 but also copied to wa1
WORKAREA\wa1\dir2 - this is the issue. this dir belongs to wa2 but also copied to wa1

Please suggest the approach we followed is okay or any other best approach. please suggest. Thanks in advance.

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kissthedevil

@Shafinsaif,

Did you extract the content store by running iwmigrate on the TS-672? Try extracting one branch and then moving it to the new server. Then once you're successful go for the full store.

Ideally the way is to extract using iwmigrate on old TS and then move the store to new TS.

I think you might also need to run the below command to upgrade your content store once you move it to TS-741.

iwtgethome/private/bin/walkArchive.pl -p <old-store-path>

Once the above command is run don't forget to restart TS.

You might also need to run Dependency Migration tool if you're using livesite.

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Rick Poulin

It sounds like you're using workareas incorrectly, specifically because saying "this dir belongs to workarea 2" doesn't make any sense.

In any case, it sounds like you've migrated the branch and version history correctly. Now you just need to use iwmigrate to migrate the workareas (it has special flags for that).

Shafinsaif

Thanks kissthedevil & rpoulin for your valuable points and comments.

The issue exactly is wa1 contents also copying to wa2 and vice versa. it seems iwmigrate copies the content from staging or editions.

Please help me if any such command to migrate branch, staging, edition, and all workarea under branch(without overlapping).

I tried the below command also. staging & editions migrating correctly except workarea.

iwmigrate -m Y:\default_672 -o C:\iw-store\default -b /default_672/main/mybranch -d -w wa1, wa2

Thanks in advance