Migrating Historian Data from Windows to Linux

About this task

You can migrate data and metadata from an existing Windows-based Historian to Historian for Linux.

Set up the Historian database on Predix Edge or a generic Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or CentOS.
Place all the Windows-based .iha and .ihc files in the archive path.

Set the HS_MODE_OF_OPERATION environment variable in the historian-archiver-conf.json file to reload.
Rename the .ihc file to <host name of the Docker container>_Config.
If the name of the .ihc file from the Windows machine is WIN-2BLPS4FOACM_Config.ihc and the host name of the Historian database Docker container is machine-01, the .ihc file should be renamed machine-01_Config.ihc.

Note: There is no need to rename the .iha files.
Start the Historian database Docker container.

Note: There is no need to set the HS_MODE_OF_OPERATION environment variable again when you restart the Docker container subsequently.