Migrate cloud drive from one iDrive region to another

[chiamarc]

Hi Folks,

I would like to move an entire cloud drive from my iDrive Paris region to one in San Jose. iDrive does provide a migration tool to move an entire S3 bucket from one region to another. I know that I have to quiesce/stop changes to the bucket during migration. I suppose that's easy enough to do just by detaching the cloud drive. But how can I then mount the cloud drive from its new location? Is it better to create a new cloud drive in a new bucket in San Jose, detach it, migrate the Paris bucket contents to the San Jose bucket, and (somehow) mount the cloud drive from metadata that now exists in San Jose? I'd much prefer to migrate rather than download from one region and re-upload to another, which I suspect will be much, much slower.

Any help is much appreciated. 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

The simplest option would be to create the second drive and move things over.

But I believe you should be able to create a new iDrive connection, using the new endpoint and bucket ID, and then mount it with that new connection.  (it may be worth creating a small test drive first to verify the process)