07: Restoring a Backup
04 - Pre-Restore Review
All Consultants Prior to restoring data into a destination system, you should thoroughly review and test your playbook. Your playbook should be complete and cover all the data that you expect to migrate as part of your project. Thoroughly review and ...
03 - Pre-Restore Processes
Between the time that you took your initial backup and wrote your playbook, some time will have elapsed. During this time, the client has likely added or changed data in their source system. Prior to completing the restore, you should do the ...
07 - Special Topics: Migrating from Slow Providers
Universal Migrator's best practices are generally optimized around doing migrations as quickly as possible. This is the ideal scenario, however, sometimes providers implement restrictions that force data to move much slower than technically possible. ...
01 - How Restores Work
At a high level, when Universal Migrator restores data, it connects to APIs at the destination system and rebuilds records based on information in the backup. Data Layering When Universal Migrator restores a record, it does so by "layering" ...
06 - Restoring into a Drive / Folders
Below are the steps to restore documents into a file folder system. 1. Click 'Restore' either from the left menu, or the button near the center of the Universal Migrator (UM) main window. 2. Find the platform you want to restore into. You can use the ...
05 - Restoring into a Cloud-based System
This article will walk you through the basics of restoring into a cloud-based system. The example shown below is restoring into MyCase, but the process is very similar for any cloud-based system. 1. When you open Universal Migrator, you will see the ...
02 - Restore-Specific Database Columns
The following columns are commonly used when Universal Migrator is restoring data into a destination system. Restore Ordering and Priority Action_Group The Action_Group allows you to mass-segment data. Only the data with the highest Action_Group in ...