Migrate Analytic Objects

You can archive your analytic objects to back them up and move them to a new location. You can bundle the whole catalog, specific folders, or multi-component objects as a .catalog file and upload the file and unarchive its data in another location

It's important to note that you must not change folders that contain seeded content. Moving or adding a child folder to a seeded folder results in analytics not being visible in dashboards or infolets.

• Create an Archive

• Move an Archived Object to a New Location

Create an Archive

You can create an archive of a catalog object or folder, to backup or move it to a different location.

1. Locate the folder or object in the catalog.
2. Optional: To archive an object, select the object, click More and then select Archive.
3. Optional: To archive a folder, select the folder and click Archive.
4. In the Archive dialog, select one or more of the following options:
   • Keep Permissions: Maintain the object or folder's existing permissions. If you don't select this, the archiving process doesn't include any permissions. Once unarchiving, the parent folder's permissions are assigned to all of the objects and folders.
   • Keep Time stamps: Maintain the Creation Time, Last Modified, and Last Accessed times assigned to the object or folder. Upon unarchiving, the Last Modified time is updated to indicate the time when the object or folder is unarchived. If you select this option, the Old option in the Paste Overview area of the Preferences dialog is available when unarchiving. Use the Old option to overwrite existing catalog items older than the items in the archive.

     If you don't select this option, then the archiving process doesn't include time information and the Old option in the Paste Overview area of the Preferences dialog isn't available.

5. Click OK to confirm that you want to save the archive.
6. Browse to the folder where you want to save the archive, and click Save to download the archive file.

Move an Archived Object to a New Location

You can move an archived object or folder to a catalog location that you specify.

1. Select the folder in the catalog where you want to upload the archived file.
2. In the Tasks pane click Unarchive.
3. In the Unarchive dialog, browse for and select the archive file.
4. Use the Replace option to specify whether to replace an existing folder or object with the same name.
   • All - Replace any existing folders or objects with the same names as folders or objects included in the archive file that you're uploading.
   • Old - Replace folders or objects except those folders or objects that exist, unless they're older than the source.
   • None - Add any new folders or objects, but preserve any existing folders or objects.
   • Force - Add and replace all folders or objects.
5. Use the Access Control Lists option to specify how the folders or objects are assigned permissions using Access Control Lists Access when unarchived
   • Inherit - Inherits the folder or object's permissions from its new parent folder.
   • Preserve - Preserves the folder or object's permissions as it was in the original, mapping accounts as necessary.
   • Create - Preserves the folder or object's permissions as it was in the original, creating and mapping accounts as necessary.