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Hello,

We are doing an Upgrade for a Customer who is upgrading from Apps10 to IFS Cloud 24R1 (have plans to get 24R2 or 25R1 in future). This is a remote customer who uses a lot of documents.

In their current Apps10 system, they have these documents in FTP Repository & database.

With the news of FTP getting obsoleted in IFS Cloud 24R1, we decided to implement File Storage for this customer. We have below two questions regarding this situation,

  1. We assumed FTP will be fully obsoleted by 24R1 but I can see FTP as an option in this customer’s new 24R1 system. Was this plan to obsolete got changed or postponed to later versions?
  1. If FTP is indeed obsoleted and this customer needs to move their documents in FTP to FSS, what would be better/efficient way IFS can suggest? They already went through the FSMig tool’s documentation and have some concerns on the efficiency and support for that tool for FTP. Do we have another tested method in which this customer can benefit from? There is around 5TB of documents in the FTP now and it needs to be moved to FSS

 

Regards,
/Nishanth

@Nishanth 

Hi,

Thanks for posting here.

You are right, FTP repositories are deprecated (in 23R2 as I remember it), and was supposed to be removed in 24R1. The removal was postponed due to feedback from a number customers who needs multiple storage locations (shares/folders) in File Storage in Remote deployment. Until that's in place, we decided to keep both FTP and Shared repositories.

I would strongly advice against using these options, since they will be removed "soon."

As for migrating documents from FTP to File Storage, the only officially supported option is the File Storage Migration Tool, that you have already read about.

For a particular customer, it might be possible to take shortcuts that the tool cannot do (because it's generic and should work for all customers), but that's done on your own risk.

On a high level, it's not hard, because it's about copying files from one location to another plus making sure the right meta data (table records) are in place in Docman as well as in the File Storage tables.

You/they can do a small test migration with a few documents (as described in the documentation), then have a look at the result in the different edm% tables in Docman plus fss_file_tab used by File Storage. And, of course, look at how/where the files end up in the SMB/network share used by File Storage. Make note of how the files are named (Base64 encoded...)

There are quite a few posts here on IFS Community that you can review on this topic, especially look at what @ORFJAN has posted and shared earlier.

Good luck!

 

Thanks alot for the reply @Mathias Dahl 
I will share this info with the customer & project team to discuss further on the migrating options

Thanks,
/Nishanth

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