Migrate between Objectstore backend and regular filesystem

[lukeflo]

Hi,

before trying anything on our companies large NC instance, trying to ask here for feedback.

Since storage of data in NC differs fundamentally between Objectstore backend (S3 objects in binary format and names like uri:...) and "regular" file systems (files/folders as they are shown in NC), I want to know if this app makes it possible to migrate between those technically different ways of storing user data/files.

My research in the docs and forum doesn't seem to make any hints that this is easily possible atm: (forum post, docs ...)

Thankful for any hint on this
Best

[come-nc]

Hmm, you’d have to export all users and import all of them in a new instance with the storage setup differently. You would lose all things which cannot be migrated (passwords, group membership, shares, …).
And that would mean having at some point all of your data in zip files per-user to be imported again, depending on the amount of data that’s a challenge as well.

So, I’m not sure this is the right tool, unless you have a very specific usecase.