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Migration issues

josh

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This post by Tom Barnett of Kaleidescape was very helpful in clarifying the oft-discussed issue of the risks of drive "upswapping". (3-year long thread on this located here.)

However, the post reminded me of a concern about upgrading my 5U to a 3U... namely that the migration process as currently implemented causes the LOSS of all movie collections and mix albums.

I now recall that issue from a while back... but had forgotten it. Guess I had assumed that was an issue of the early versions of the migration code in KEAOS. It's a HUGE issue for me personally, with probably over 3000 collection membership records, and a dozen or more very large, carefully created mix albums.

Given the deprecation of the "System Snapshot" function, as well as this somewhat glaring ommission in the System Migration function, is there ANY way to avoid losing this valuable data and recreating each item one-by-one? Can't quite see why the engineers took the trouble to make sure migration moved paused bookmarks over to the new server but not mix albums or collection membership.

Another set of data that will be (ahem) "lost in migration" is the import date/order of your movies/albums. Also a bummer for me... as I use the auto-generated "NEW" collection a lot to find what movies are the newest in my collection.

Definitely makes me re-think my plan to soon get the 5U-to-3U upgrade.

Tom, is there any other solution? Will a future KEAOS upgrade fix this problem? Do Dealers have any way to do a FULL replication, preserving these items as well?

--josh
 
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Hi Josh, dealers have the same capability in replication as everyone else. I lost the same files when I replicated my two 5U's to the 3U, and yes, I agree regarding the import page and "new" movies. I'm currently in the process of trying to locate all of the movies I have not viewed yet and moving them to the "Watch Soon" collection. A real PITA (but I'm still very satisfied with the replication process).

Jim
 
In anticipation of my migration I have been printing out lists of all of my collections. At least I will have these with which to rebuild my collections. It sure would be nice if the system would preserve all of my previous work.
 
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