The Migration Assistant service of DataWorks allows you to migrate the tasks of open source scheduling engines to DataWorks. Migration Assistant also allows you to migrate data objects within DataWorks across clouds, regions, or accounts. This way, you can quickly clone and deploy tasks in DataWorks. To quickly migrate data and tasks to the cloud, you can also obtain help from the DataWorks team and the big data service team of Alibaba Cloud.
Overview
- Migrate the tasks of open source scheduling engines to DataWorks.
- Migrate data objects within DataWorks.
Scenarios
- Migration of tasks to the cloud: You can use Migration Assistant to migrate the tasks of open source scheduling engines to DataWorks.
- Back up node code: You can use Migration Assistant to periodically back up your node code to prevent data from being accidentally deleted.
- Replicate a common workflow: You can use Migration Assistant to replicate a common workflow by performing import and export operations.
- Build a test environment: You can use Migration Assistant to copy all node code and replace production data with test data to build a test environment.
- Develop data across clouds: You can use Migration Assistant to migrate node code between DataWorks of the Alibaba Cloud public cloud and DataWorks of Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack to collaboratively develop data across clouds.
Billing
After you activate DataWorks, you can use Migration Assistant. The features that are provided by Migration Assistant vary based on the DataWorks edition. For more information, see Differences among DataWorks editions.
Activate DataWorks and use Migration Assistant
After you activate DataWorks, you can log on to the DataWorks console and use Migration Assistant. For more information, see Migration Assistant Overview.