NetApp Migration from Centera
I've seen other conversations here, but they didn't seem to address my exact scenario. We are being tasked to look at what it would take to migrate all of the items we have in Centera (Compliance Mode) over to NetApp (running their compliance mode equivalent). These are all items captured via journaling - we don't do any archiving here. We have about 6.5TB of data, most of which is on a three year retention policy. How would we migrate that data and keep the policies intact?
Your only options are either Move Archive or one of the other migration services, such as Transvault, Aikabu, etc, It unfortunately isn't as simple as just dumping out all the DVS files and pushing them to the netapp as all the database entries would have to be changed as well.
One big stumbling block you might find is if you have Discovery Accelerator and you have items on legal hold, none of the software pieces can migrate a legal hold correctly, so any cases you have would have to be deleted and the holds lifted.
Obviously if you're looking for the cheapest method, it would be Move Archive, and since you only will have a few journal archives, its easy enough to queue.
If you want it to be more granular with the types of items being transferred (say for instance you have items going back all the way to 2005, but you only want 2009 onward) then looking at another migrator software would be a better fit.
The speed differences between Move Archive and others are debatable since they all should be using the EVAPI to retrieve items, and since you are not doing shortcut updates then that will make things go somewhat quicker as well.