This tutorial describes how to migrate data from S3-compatible sources to Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS).
Overview
Data Online Migration is a data channel between different storage services of Alibaba Cloud. You can use Data Online Migration to migrate data from third-party data stores to OSS or between OSS buckets.
To use Data Online Migration, you need to specify information about the source data address and destination OSS address in the console, and then create a migration task. After the migration task starts, you can manage the task in the console. For example, you can view the progress and traffic information of the task.
Flowchart
Migration process
The following figure shows the migration process:
To ensure data security and consistency, we recommend that you use HTTPS.
After a data migration task is complete, you must check whether the data at the destination data address is consistent with the data at the source data address.
Make sure that you verify the migrated data at the destination after the migration task is complete. If you delete the data at the source data address before you verify the migrated data at the destination data address, you are liable for the losses and consequences caused by any data loss.
Process of creating a migration task
The following figure shows how to create a migration task:
When you read data from the source data address during a migration job, you are charged for outbound Internet traffic by the storage service provider of the source data address.
Tutorial contents
This tutorial includes the following content: