Merging Content Stores
We are currently running with 3 content stores and want to consolidate each of these content stores to brances under one content store i.e.
From:
A
B
C
To:
X /A
/B
/C
where X is the content store.
Can it be done and all of the version history be available?
I can't find anything about merging content stores in the documentation. Can anyone point me to where I can find about doing this?
Cheers.
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If you're talking about TeamSite - then the command you want to use is iwmigrate (which is documented in the command-line tool [CLT] manual and in numerous KB articles on the Support site).
Please note, however, that the branch names within the stores stay the same - e.g.: /X/main/foo, if migrated to the default store, will become /default/main/foo (i.e.: you cannot change the name or store-relative-path of the branch during the migration) - so if you have two (or more) branches with the same store-relative-path and name in two different stores and try to migrate them into a single store, the results are likely to be less than desirable. Better, in such cases, to rename the branch(es) in one of the stores before doing the migration.
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To add on to Ghoti's reply, I hope your workflows and deployments are written correctly and in a VPATH independent manner. I see way too many locations hard code the VPATH rather than take it from the system. This will cause your deployments/workflows to break.
So what is the reasoning behind combining the stores? Unless 3 are very small, I would think having mulitple is better (that is if you were licensed for mulitple stores).
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We were licenced for multiple stores in TeamSite 7.1 but HP have limited us to just 1 for our new installation of TeamSite 8.1 and we are just exploring options.
I thought that iwmigrate was for moving content stores from one server to another.
Thank you, I will read the documentation more thoroughly
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Hi,
Thanks for your responses, I tried this:
iwmigrate -g -m Y:\[Source content store] -b /x/main -o \iw-store\default\x > \Temp\iwmig.log 2>&1
I get this in the log file:
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] PUBLISHED WORKAREA TO EDITION INITIAL.iwconvert
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Replay of edition INITIAL.iwconvert complete
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Done with replay of editions
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Edition replay complete for INITIAL.iwconvert to INITIAL.iwconvert
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Converting branch /x/main/External_Content/DPP
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Error, FindEditionByID failed on branch /x/main/External_Content/DPP
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Edition replay failed
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] err = 2008
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Error, convert of branch /x/main/External_Content/DPP had errors
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016]
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Total files/directories/symlinks copied: 0
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016]
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Total bytes of data copied: 0
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016]
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Total EA's copied: 0
[Tue Apr 05 14:37:45 2016] Shutting down backing store environment...Do you know where I can find out what these errors are ?
What does FindEditionByID failed on branch mean ?
Any advice will be much appreciated.
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Anytime you're dealing with issues with the content store - the best suggestion is to contact Support.
There are a number of us here who could provide suggestions, answers, etc., but as the content store is the heart of the system that you / your organization has spent a considerable amount of $$$'s on - you're best off getting the vendor involved in resolving any issues with it.
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