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Copy Data to your BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 Deployment

When you perform a complex upgrade to BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1, the CA Business Intelligence installer provides the option of creating a new CMS database for the deployment, or specifying an existing database to use as the CMS database. If you are performing a complex upgrade to BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1, you must copy your Business Intelligence content from your existing BusinessObjects Enterprise XI or XI Release 2 CMS database to your BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 CMS database. You can do this either through the CCM or by using the Import Wizard.

Copying the CMS data through the CCM copies all the objects of the CMS at once, so it is the simplest and quickest solution if you want to copy your entire CMS database contents.

The Import Wizard gives you the ability to select and copy specific objects from a CMS, so it is the best option if you want to only import a subset of the source objects into the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 system.

Note: When you use the CCM to copy the contents of a database, it reinitializes the destination database. This means that any data in the destination database is deleted. If you are copying data from a source database, and want to preserve any data that already exists in the destination database, you must use the Import Wizard.

If you are using the CCM to copy your content to your BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 deployment, you must perform the following steps.

• Use the CCM to copy the data from your existing CMS database to your BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 CMS database.
• Either repoint the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 Input and Output File Repositories to the locations of the existing repositories, or copy the files in the existing file repositories to the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 file repositories.
• Use the CCM to update the objects in your CMS repository. This step adds the properties to the objects copied from the CMS that BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 requires.

Note: If you have performed a simple upgrade, the installation program automatically copies your content to your BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 deployment.