4.7 Estimating Migration Time

There is no precise way to estimate how long it will take to migrate a particular post office or domain to Linux. The major determining factors are:

Fortunately, the Server Migration Utility makes it easy to perform any number of practice runs. You can safely run the Server Migration Utility on a live post office or domain as long as you do not make any of the configuration changes in ConsoleOne that would be made during a real migration.

You can expect to see the Migration Utility move about 6 GB of data per hour. If performance is substantially slower than this, check your network configuration for slow links and make sure that none of the following processes are running while you are migrating data:

These activities can hold files open and cause the Migration Utility to wait, thus slowing the migration process.

To speed migration, you might want to move agent log files out of post office directories and domain directories, especially if any of the following situations apply:

Agent log files are stored in the following locations: