D.3 Copying Custom Drivers to Migrate Servers

You can copy custom drivers from one Migrate Server to other Migrate Servers. This helps you to build the custom drivers library on many Migrate Servers without having to recreate them.

Consider that you want to copy the custom drivers from the Migrate Server M1 to the Migrate Server M2.

To copy the drivers from M1:

  1. Log in to the PlateSpin Migrate Server M1 host machine as the Administrator user.

  2. Navigate to the PlateSpin Migrate installation directory such as <install-folder>\PlateSpin Migrate Server.

  3. Open the \Packages\9D470BFF-E30F-4015-83D8-4D308A8C8B1B\ folder and copy the latest .package (x.package) file out of this folder to a temporary directory dir1.

    For example, if the folder contains 1.package, 2.package, and 3.package, copy the 3.package file to the temporary directory dir1.

  4. Rename x.package with the .zip file extension (x.zip) and extract the contents of the file to this temporary directory dir1.

  5. Copy all the custom drivers (named CustomKernel*) from dir1 to another temporary location dir2.

To copy the drivers to M2:

  1. Log in to the PlateSpin Migrate Server M2 host machine as the Administrator user.

  2. Navigate to the PlateSpin Migrate installation directory such as <install-folder>\PlateSpin Migrate Server.

  3. Open the \Packages\9D470BFF-E30F-4015-83D8-4D308A8C8B1B\ folder and copy the latest .package (y.package) file out of this folder to a temporary directory dir3.

    For example, if the folder contains 1.package, 2.package, and 3.package, copy the 3.package file to a temporary directory dir3.

  4. Rename y.package with the .zip file extension (y.zip) and extract the contents of the file to this temporary directory dir4.

  5. Copy all the custom drivers from the temporary location dir2 on the PlateSpin Migrate Server M1 to the temporary location dir4 on the PlateSpin Migrate Server M2.

  6. Zip all the files in the folder dir4 on the PlateSpin Migrate Server M2 to recreate the y.zip file.

  7. Rename y.zip to y.package.

    This y.package on the PlateSpin Migrate Server M2 now contains the custom drivers copied from M1 in addition to all the drivers that existed on M2 before copying the drivers from M1.