Migrating from Enterprise Data Center to EC2

This section describes to steps for migrating your data and configuration from a data center to EC2.

There are a number of ways you could migrate from a local data center to EC2. The following is one possible procedure.

1. Copy an existing backup of your databases to S3 storage. If you prefer to backup your databases directly to S3, set your S3 security credentials, as described in Configure AWS Credentials, on your local MarkLogic cluster and, for your backup directory, provide the path to your S3 bucket, as described in Set an S3 Path in Forest Data Directory.

2. Export all of the configuration data for your cluster.

3. Create a Cloud Formation template, as described in Deploying MarkLogic on EC2 Using CloudFormation, to recreate the hosts for your cluster on EC2.

4. Import your configuration data into your EC2 cluster.

5. Restore your backed-up data from S3 to your configured EC2 forests.