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Migrating a Cyber Recovery deployment's data: Migrating data
Migrating a Cyber Recovery deployment's data: Migrate data to a Cyber Recovery virtual appliance
Migrating a Cyber Recovery deployment's data: Migrate to a different server
Cyber Recovery 19.13 data migration guide: Notes, cautions, and warnings

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 Contents
Preliminary Activity Tasks .......................................................................................................3
Read, understand, and perform these tasks.................................................................................................3

Notes, cautions, and warnings................................................................................................4

Migrating a Cyber Recovery deployment's data .....................................................................4
Migrating data ..........................................................................................................................................4
Migrate data to a Cyber Recovery virtual appliance ................................................................................4
Migrate to a different server.....................................................................................................................5

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Preliminary Activity Tasks
This section may contain tasks that you must complete before performing this procedure.

Read, understand, and perform these tasks

1. Table 1 lists tasks, cautions, warnings, notes, and/or knowledgebase (KB) solutions that you need to
be aware of before performing this activity. Read, understand, and when necessary perform any
tasks contained in this table and any tasks contained in any associated knowledgebase solution.

Table 1 List of cautions, warnings, notes, and/or KB solutions related to this activity

2. This is a link to the top trending service topics. These topics may or not be related to this activity.
This is merely a proactive attempt to make you aware of any KB articles that may be associated with
this product.

Note: There may not be any top trending service topics for this product at any given time.

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Notes, cautions, and warnings
NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you
how to avoid the problem.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

Migrating a Cyber Recovery deployment's data

This section describes how to migrate data.

Migrating data
If necessary, migrate an existing Cyber Recovery deployment to a virtual appliance or to a different,
supported operating system.

You can:

• Migrate a deployment to a Cyber Recovery virtual appliance.

• Migrate a deployment from one operating system to a different operating system on the same
server.
• Migrate a deployment to a supported operating system on a different server.

NOTE: Because CentOS is not a supported operating system for a Cyber Recovery deployment,
consider migrating your existing Cyber Recovery deployment to either a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
or SUSE Linux Enterprise system. Future Cyber Recovery releases will not support updates and
installation on a CentOS deployment.

Migrate data to a Cyber Recovery virtual appliance

Migrate data from a Cyber Recovery software deployment to a Cyber Recovery virtual appliance
deployment.
Steps

1. Stop all running jobs.

2. Verify the MongoDB and lockbox passphrases, which are required to perform a recovery to
complete the migration:

# .crsetup.sh ––verifypassword

3. Record information about the deployment, such as the required networks settings, which include
IP address, DNS, FQDN, mail server (Postfix), firewall settings, and so on.

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 4. Create a backup copy of the existing deployment, using either:
o The Cyber Recovery UI—This option is preferred and places a server DR backup at the
configured DD MTree.
o The CLI, using the following command:

# crsetup.sh --save

NOTE: The backup copy is saved to the /opt/dellemc/cr-configs directory. Ensure that you
save the backup copy to a location external to the Cyber Recovery server.

5. Deploy the Cyber Recovery virtual appliance in the Cyber Recovery vault.

For information about how to deploy the Cyber Recovery virtual appliance, see the Installing the
Cyber Recovery virtual appliance topic in the installation guide..
Ensure that version of the Cyber Recovery virtual appliance is the same as the Cyber Recovery
version from which you created a backup copy.
6. Copy the newly created backup file onto the Cyber Recovery virtual appliance.
7. On the Cyber Recovery virtual appliance, perform a recovery and restore the data:
o If you used the Cyber Recovery UI to create the backup file, mount the Cyber Recovery
backup MTree to the Cyber Recovery host.
o If you used the CLI to create the backup file, copy the backup file to the
/opt/dellemc/cr-configs directory and run the following command:

# crsetup.sh --recover

Migrate to a different server

Migrate your Cyber Recovery deployment to different server that is running a supported operating
system.
Prerequisites

The server must be running either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
About this task

Before you move your deployment to a different server, first save the current configuration. After you
have installed the operating system, you install the Cyber Recovery software and perform a recovery to
restore your data.
Steps

1. On the current server, verify the MongoDB and lockbox passphrases, which are required to
perform a recovery to complete the migration:

# .crsetup.sh ––verifypassword

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2. Record information about the deployment, such as:
o The required networks settings, which include IP address, DNS, FQDN, mail server
(Postfix), firewall settings, and so on
o Docker and Docker Compose versions
3. Create a backup copy of the existing deployment, using either:
o The Cyber Recovery UI—This option is preferred and places a server DR backup at the
configured DD MTree.
o The CLI, using the following command:

# crsetup.sh --save

NOTE: The backup copy is saved to the /opt/dellemc/cr-configs directory. Ensure that you
save the backup copy to an external disk.

4. Install the same version of the Cyber Recovery software that was running on the original
deployment.
We recommend that you set the MongDB and lockbox passphrases with the same passphrases
used on the original deployment.
5. Perform a recovery and restore the data:
o If you used the Cyber Recovery UI to create the backup file, mount the Cyber Recovery
backup MTree to the Cyber Recovery host.
o If you used the CLI to create the backup file, copy the backup file to location on the
Cyber Recovery server and run the following command:

# crsetup.sh --recover

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