Migrating and Moving BLOBs Between BLOB Stores
SharePoint 2010 ships with a powerful PowerShell commandlet named Migrate that can be used by administrators to move BLOBs from their current locations to the current active RBS provider store. This implies that administrators can use the commandlet to move data from SQL Server to another remote BLOB store, and vice versa. Moving BLOBs from a content database is a typical requirement after installing and configuring RBS on already running SharePoint systems.
It is also worth mentioning that the Migrate commandlet performs a deep copy of the BLOBs one BLOB at a time, and there is no downtime required for moving all the BLOBs. The migration process also can be paused and resumed at any time, which ...
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