How to Perform Arcserve UDP Console Migration

You can migrate one Arcserve UDP Console to another Arcserve UDP Console using ConsoleMigration.exe. From Arcserve UDP v6.5 Update 2 onwards, you can migrate the Arcserve UDP Console between any two Arcserve UDP consoles.

Use ConsoleMigration.exe for BackupDB and RecoverDB. The following screen shot displays the usage of ConsoleMigration.exe:

To complete the migration process, follow these steps:

  1. On old Arcserve UDP Console, perform backup for the Arcserve UDP database.

    2. The DB_Migration folder is created successfully.

  2. On the new Arcserve UDP Console, copy the DB_Migration folder to the following path:

    3. <UDP_Home> \Management\BIN\Appliance\

  3. On the new Arcserve UDP Console, perform the steps mentioned in the screen below to recover the Arcserve UDP Console database.

    4. Note: In Arcserve UDP Console, if any site other than Local Site exists, follow the steps mentioned in NewRegistrationText.txt file to register the site again.

You have completed migration of Arcserve UDP Console to the new Arcserve UDP Console successfully.

You can use this tool to perform console migration for Arcserve UDP Console connected with remote SQL database. After the migration is complete, the migrated Arcserve UDP Console is configured to connect with the same remote SQL database.

Note: In UDP v6.5 Update 2 and Update 3, when you use Console Migration Tool to perform console migration between two Arcserve UDP Consoles then both the Arcserve UDP Console versions and SQL database versions should be consistent on the two Arcserve UDP Console systems. Otherwise, the console migration fails and an error message is displayed in the command line and log files under the following path:

<UDP_Home> \Management\BIN\Appliance\logs

In Arcserve UDP v6.5 Update 4, -force option is introduced in ConsoleMigration.exe command to force the recovery backup database file migration to the target console under the following conditions:

  1. When you want to perform console migration between two consoles where the source console uses SQL Server Enterprise edition and the target console uses SQL Server Express edition. In this case, the minimum required Database size of the source UDP console is 4000 MB.
  2. When you want to perform console migration from a console that uses an advanced version of SQL Server database to a console that uses an older version of SQL Server database. For example, migrating from a console using SQL Server 2016 to a console using SQL Server 2014.