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About Transferring Data Using Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)

After you extract data from a Proficy Historian or a PI Server, you must transfer it to the destination machine. To do so, you can use BITS, FTP, or any other file-sharing application.

To transfer data using BITS, perform the following steps:

Install the BITS IIS server extension.
Configure the BITS settings.
Transfer data to the destination machine.