Training: Overview

Welcome to the Migration Academy!

This series will help you learn everything you need to know in order to deliver high-value, rock-solid data and document migrations.

Completion of the academy generally takes 4-8 hours and is required in order to start using Universal Migrator.

1. Learn about Universal Migrator

To work together, we need to work the same way.

01 - Is Universal Migrator for you?

02 - How We Expect Consultants to Think

03 - How We Expect Consultants to Work

04 - How We Expect Consultants to Talk

2. Setting Up Your Hardware

To be successful, you need good hardware in the right location.

1. Best Practice: Choosing the Right Location for a Migration Workstation
   
2. 01 - Configuring a Migration Workstation

3.  Don't Waste Time

To be profitable, you need to be able to move fast.

1. Best Practice: Optimizing Your Processes
   

4.  Scoping Your First Migration

To have happy clients, you need to set clear expectations.

1. 01 - Creating a Migration Workspace
   
2. 02 - Creating a Migration Playbook
   
3. 03 - Scoping your First Migration
   
4. Best Practice: Requesting a Migration Workstation
   
5. Best Practice: Migration Date Email
   

5.  Creating a Backup

Learn how our backups work and how to initiate them.

1. 01 - How Backups Work
   
2. 02 - General Backup Guidelines
   
3. 03 - Backing Up a Cloud-based System
   
4. 04 - Backing Up a Terrestrial Application
   
5. 05 - Backing up a File Server
   

6.  Reviewing a Backup

Learn how data is structured inside a backup

1. 01 - Reviewing a Backup
   
2. 02 - Standardized Terms
   

7.  Tweaking a Backup

Learn how to tweak a backup to implement common client requests.

1. 01 - Tweaking a Backup
   

8.  Restoring a Backup

Learn how to restore a backup.

1. 01 - How Restores Work
   
2. 02 - Restore-Specific Database Columns
   
3. 03 - Restoring into a Cloud-based System
   
4. 04 - Restoring into a Drive / Folders
   

9.  Tweaking a Restore

Learn how to tweak data after it has been restored.

1. 01 - Tweaking a Restore
   

10.  Undoing a Restore

Learn How to Undo a Restore

01 - Undo for selected platforms: Deleting Imported Data

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