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BrijeshYadav
Level 5
November 7, 2017
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Upgrade/Migrate AEM 6.1 to AEM 6.3

  • November 7, 2017
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We are planning to move to AEM 6.3 So I want to discuss below two approaches which one to choose ?

1. Upgrade existing repository (6.1 oak 1.2.11 ) to AEM 6.3.

2. Install fresh AEM 6.3 and then deploy code followed by content migration.

Considering facts that we have almost 70GB of content including dam.

/Brijesh Yadav

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Best answer by edubey

Yes,  You can use CRX2OAK for content migration between oak repo also.

Quoting from docs-

" It can be used to migrate data from older CQ versions based on Apache Jackrabbit 2 to Oak, and it can also be used to copy data between Oak repositories."

Thanks

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BrijeshYadav
Level 5
November 8, 2017

Does anyone have any input here ?

Hemant_arora
Level 8
November 8, 2017

AEM upgrade - fresh install

Hope this helps. Look for my response in the link above

BrijeshYadav
Level 5
November 8, 2017

Thanks Hemant.


I wan to go with fresh install and if i am not wrong CRX2Oak Migration Tool (Using the CRX2Oak Migration Tool ) also helpful for content migration from 6.1(oak 1.2.11) to 6.3 ?

/Brijesh Yadav

edubey
edubeyAccepted solution
Level 10
November 8, 2017

Yes,  You can use CRX2OAK for content migration between oak repo also.

Quoting from docs-

" It can be used to migrate data from older CQ versions based on Apache Jackrabbit 2 to Oak, and it can also be used to copy data between Oak repositories."

Thanks

smacdonald2008
Level 10
November 8, 2017

WHen you deploy your apps and code from 6.1 to 6.3  - you may need to rebuild them too as what worked on AEM 6.1 may not work on 6.3 without rebuilding and using UBER 6.3 JAR file etc.

BrijeshYadav
Level 5
November 8, 2017

Thanks everyone for your suggestions

Level 4
March 20, 2018

Hi,

we are also planning to migrate from AEM 6.1 SP1 to AEM 6.3. We are thinking of setting up fresh AEM 6.3 and migrate content then. But we have the need to keep and migrate the versions. Is this possible? Does anyone have experience with this scenario?

Thx

Hemant_arora
Level 8
March 20, 2018

Create a replica of existing AEM6.1 and do an inplace upgrade to 6.3. This way you should have both available. AEM6.1 existing instance and AEM6.1(replica) inplace upgrade to AEM6.3

Level 4
March 20, 2018

Thanks, well an inplace upgrade is possible, of course. Our consideration was that since we did always inplace upgrade starting with CQ 5.4, it might be a good idea to start from scratch and maybe leave old stuff from older versions that is not in use anymore behind us...

BrijeshYadav
Level 5
March 20, 2018

lutzu70088640​ versions can also be migrate using  "Version Store Options" parameter CRX2OAK migration tool
Using the CRX2Oak Migration Tool

/Brijesh