Questions tagged [migration]
Migration specifies 1) the process of moving information between different data formats or 2) the process of moving an existing user environment to a different system, for example when switching operating systems
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USMT loadstate - how to resolve this error
I am using USMT from the current ADK to migrate a user from an offline drive. The drive came from a Win 10 machine, the target machine is Win 11.
I have got scanstate to run without errors.
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I need to move LVM PEs to a smaller disk, will this work?
I need to migrate Ubuntu to a smaller disk.
I have a VM with the first disk that is 50GiB :
$ sudo parted /dev/sda unit mib print free
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 51200MiB
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Is there any way to pg_upgrade PostgreSQL 12 to 15 over network?
My situation is a little bit complicated.
I have an older version of PostgreSQL 12.9 installed on an older Centos Stream 8 machine. There are about five custom databases created under the roof, say ...
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Outlook Calendar/Contacts Export to PST
We have a large number of imap to office365 migrations to complete.users currently use outlook for their email. O365 migration doesn’t migrate calendar/contacts etc so we are manually exporting from ...
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Email migration from Google to Microsoft fails with TargetDeliveryDomainMismatchPermanentException
I am migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft365.
Everything seems to migrate over just fine, it will show status synced, but when I finalize the batch, it always ends on fail anyways (status of ...
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Restoring a Windows Server 2008 R2 instance with only the C:\ drive
I am attempting to migrate a Windows Server 2008 R2 physical server to a proxmox VM with only a backup of the physical servers C:\ drive.
My approach was to do a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 ...
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Migrating Thunderbird Gmail account from POP to IMAP is messing up nested folder/label structure?
Following the instructions to migrate a POP account to IMAP, the step for dragging and dropping (nested) folders over to the IMAP account is producing a different result than in the original POP ...
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How to migrate all packages, settings, user data etc. after updating to a newer Python version? [closed]
I've just installed Python 3.10 on Windows 10 and none of my scripts are working. For instance, when doing jupyter notebook I get
'jupyter' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
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Does the rsync command provide a safe means of transferring data from a Windows disk image to a Linux system?
I currently have Windows 10 on my computer, and I am planning on installing Ubuntu. Before installing Ubuntu, I am planning on creating a disk image to preserve my data. Once Ubuntu is installed, I ...
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how to replace my existing WIFI system while keeping it working for a short transition period
I have an old Orbi Netgear wifi working off a Verizon Modem. I want to upgrade to a new Netgear Orbi Router 6. Can I keep the old system up while I move across?
But I want to reuse the old SSID# and ...
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Transplanting Edge v101 session with all its open tabs to another computer
I had a very intense work period on a loaner laptop with multi-tasking between multiple projects, and I have literally hundreds (perhaps thousands) of tabs open in Edge browser (Edge is pretty good at ...
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How to migrate primary system drive from RAID array to SSD with Windows already installed?
I currently have an SSD (C:) with Windows 10 installed on it (C:/Windows/*). I also have a RAID 1+0 array of 4 HDDs (D:) that does not have an OS installed. I would like to remove the RAID (D:) ...
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How to open a .MIG file from Windows Easy Transfer?
Having a .mig backup file, how do I open it on Windows 8/10? They don't have the same software anymore as Windows 7 and prior used to have to open this file.
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Can PC use both local and domain account same time?
I'm trying setting up a domain for local company network and some users take their laptops to home. and my question is can they use local and domain accounts at the same time? for example at home ...
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MacOS - Unable to see shared drive from one MacBook to another via Thunderbolt
I have a new MacBook Pro and I have attempted to migrate data and account information from my old MacBook Pro.
Both systems are running MacOS 12.1 (Monterey)
The old MacBook Pro is a 2019 16" ...
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Better backups for Windows (10, 11, etc) [closed]
I have a number of desktops, servers & other systems that I run & maintain - for myself, family & friends/colleagues.
I've slowly over the years been inching/trial&erroring towards ...
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installing a new SSD in laptop, optimal way to iso the old SSD to run as virtual MC when new drive installed
I got here from SO, could I hear thoughts on below.
I have had a search of the forums and can't find a direct hit for my query.
I am upgrading my 500gb SSD in my XPS13 to a 2tb Samsung imminently
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How to migrate Ubuntu to a new SSD
I'm trying to move my Ubuntu installation to a new SSD but all the guides that I found are either incomplete or the partition layout is different than mine.
I would use Ubuntu live and clone the sdd5 ...
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Migrating from an IMAP email to Google Workspace email - no password asked?
I am migrating from an IMAP email to Google Workspace email. There is a migration tool available which asks only for "source email" and target "Google Workspace email" - it does ...
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How to migrate / transfer / upgrade existing google account to google workspace account under same email address on my personal domain? [closed]
I currently have a personal Google Account using an email address on a domain name I own. For this particular email address, I also currently have email set up with Yahoo!, but I want to migrate to ...
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CentOS server migration (physical type of migration only HDD)
I need your help regarding "phyisical" migration of the CentOS server. At the moment my CentOS is installed on the C220 Cisco server, but in next couple of weeks I will get another C220 that ...
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Migrate Windows10 Setup from old Notebook to new Notebook - best way?
In our business we have a notebook with Windows 10 and a quite complicated software setup running on it. Its about 7 years old, but the OS runs fine - things seem quite clean and the whole setup is ...
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Firefox doesn't import all history from Chrome
When importing history from Google Chrome 89.0.4389.90 to Firefox 86.0.1, the latter doesn't import all items. Only last month's history is there while I have been using Chrome for over a year.
How to ...
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Can't boot PC after cloning HDD to SSD
Yesterday I cloned the full contents of my HDD (including a Windows and a Ubuntu partition) to my new SSD (Samsung 860 EVO). I can now successfully boot into Ubuntu from the SSD, but when trying to ...
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Can you return old RAID 1 disks(and keep all the files on them) to Windows Server machine if migrating to new disks fails?
I'm looking for some help regarding RAID 1 and migration to bigger disks.
Here is the thing. I have to migrate Dell PowerEdge T30 disks that are in RAID 1 to new and bigger disks. From what I ...
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How to clone an M.2 drive through a computer and USB-M.2 adapter? [duplicate]
want to upgrade the SSD size of my Laptop without reinstalling everything if possible.
The laptop has an M.2. drive and I have an M.2->USB adapter (like this https://www.amazon.de/-/en/FIDECO-...
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Remove references to old windows partition long after migrating to ssd?
A few years ago, I migrated my windows 10 installation from an HDD to an SSD (with Aomei Partition Assistant if I recall correctly). The old HDD remained connected as a data drive. All seemed fine a ...
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How to migrate "log-in with Google" to Microsoft
I'm looking to migrate from Google Workspace to Office 365 but before I do I want to know how to handle the third-party websites (like Stackexchange) that use the sign-in with Google feature.
I've ...
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Change boot drive to SSD but keep files on HDD
I have just gotten a SSD for christmas (samsung 860 EVO 1TB) and was wondering how to change the boot drive to the SSD and then later move over the files that I want, like steam library and such. The ...
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Clone an old hard drive with multiple partitions to a new Mac
Here's my situation : my old Macbook from 2011 died on me, and the guy at the store said it was beyond repair. He could however extract the hard drive with all the data. I found an E-Sata-to-USB mount ...
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Windows 10 -- laptop to laptop migration -- where is the Easy button?
I can't believe it is 2020 and I am asking this....
I have a Surface Go 2 (with the wimpy CPU). Win10. Current. Has maybe six apps on it, and a lot of files in many dirs.
I am getting a new Surface.
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transferring large mail archive from mac osx to linux
I have a 50GB email archive on my apple laptop, stored locally, in whatever format the Mail application uses.
I'm switching over to a desktop debian machine and want to transfer this archive without ...
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__CRASHING_DUE_TO_PRIVACY_VIOLATION__ error after exporting to MacOS
TL;DR: How to fix __CRASHING_DUE_TO_PRIVACY_VIOLATION__ error when starting Ubuntu VM, which was migrated from Windows 10 host to macOS host?
I was warking inside a guest OS Ubuntu on a host OS ...
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System Partition and Boot Partition on Different Drives
I have Windows installed on an SSD, but as shown, the system drive is the HDD.
This happened after I dual-booted windows and linux (with linux being on a partition on the HDD) and then removed the ...
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Windows Server Migration - find which c plusplus redist installations are necessary
here's the situation:
We have an older Winserver 2012 VM that we want to migrate to 2019. This VM has a bunch of IIS / ASP sites that were written by an intern about 6-8 years ago, and apparently need ...
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OnPrem Exchange to Office 365 Migration
Current Scenario: We have an onprem Exchange with 10 users, used Azure AD Connect to Sync users to Cloud for using Exchange Online Protection & ATP.
But now we are planning to migrate all users to ...
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RTC to GIT migration
I want to migrate all streams with history to new git branch.Can you help me.Is there any tool or any solution simply?For example for each stream I want to create a brach in git with stream history
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Successfully cloned my HDD to a new SSD, but can only boot into SSD if the old HDD is unplugged
OS: Windows 10 Build 18363
Laptop: Acer Aspire E5-475
SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2
BIOS mode is UEFI
So following instructions on various websites, I installed my new SSD on my laptop. I used ...
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Problems while moving data of Thunderbird
I would like to move my Thunderbird settings and data to a new computer. I am using the method described HERE, and I remember I managed to do it before like this. It seems like everything is copied ...
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Windows will not boot from new SSD
I am trying to migrate my current C drive with Windows 10 installed (250GB M.2 SSD) to a 1TB M.2 SSD. Both are physically installed in my PC.
I used Macrium Reflect to clone the drive to the new SSD, ...
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Migrate Win7 -> Win10 profile with high-resolution choice of deployment
Yes, this is another question about migrating a user profile from one computer to another (Windows 7 to Windows 10 in my particular case).
However - I'm not sure the user I'm migrating the profile ...
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Motherboard blew a few capacitors. How should I migrate the system?
So, the motherboard of a customer’s system blew a few capacitors and replacing the motherboard with one of the same model is not an option as it is out of production now. The system won’t stay turned ...
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How to migrate windows installation from two discs/partitions two one partition on one new disc without reinstalling?
I currently run a windows 10 installation on my pc using a SSD and a HDD. The HDD only contains a set of user space applications and data stuff. I would like to merge those partitions into one and ...
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Migrate an offline Windows installation to another drive, copying only once, using only Microsoft tools
As a SysAdmin I occasionally backup and duplicate Windows installations. My current approach is creating a WIM using DISM /Capture-Image or ImageX /capture, then applying the image to a new volume. ...
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Migrate Windows 7 from a dead PC
I have an HDD from a dead PC I'm trying to use for new PC with a very different configuration, carrying over the OS. All MS solutions center around running something on the old PC first - "sysprep", "...
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AzCopy migration unknown command /source error
AzCopy /Source:https://sourceaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer1
/Dest:https://destaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer2
/SourceKey:key1 /DestKey:key2 /S
After using this script to ...
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Access denied for user in DMS instance
I am trying to set up a data replication task with AWS DMS (MySQL to MySQL).
The endpoint configurations have been successfully tested but the task is not terminated because it gives the following ...
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Domain transfer from Network Solutions to AWS Route 53
I am looking for a solution to mitigating 2 days of downtime.
I reached out to network solutions and they do not have control over the TTL of the Name Server records (which is 2 days or 172800 ...
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Migrate Data from Ondedrive to iCloud Photos
My OneDrive contains pretty much all of my files, photos and videos (~60+ gb). I have a mac and an iPhone and I finally want to sync up everything all in iCloud. I've already upgraded my iCloud so it ...
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Should web browser apps running in Windows 7 be tested on Windows 10 before migrating to Windows 10
I am on a project where over 20,000 desktops will be migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10. There has be a question as to whether or not it is necessary to test if a web browser app being access from ...
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