Migration of the Crystal Enterprise Repository

There are numerous circumstances whereby an administrator might want to migrate the Crystal Repository, for example, during an upgrade, moving from different instances of Crystal Enterprise, or the possible merging of two repositories.

Migration from Earlier Versions of Crystal Enterprise and Seagate Info

Prior to version 9, no Report Object repository existed. The Crystal Import Wizard migrates the Crystal Enterprise repository from versions 10.x and below (see Figure 17.5). The Import Wizard is a Windows-based utility that enables users to import users, groups, report objects and instances, associated permissions, events, and server groups.

Figure 17.5. The Crystal Import Wizard showing the versions ...

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