How do I use CRX2OAK to transfer page version and audit history?

[jayv25585659]

problem: We did a server migration a few months ago and page versions and audit history was not copied across.
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what I want/what I'm trying to do:

1. I want to copy page versions and audit history from a prod backup (taken before server migration) to existing prod author
2. I want to limit the data to anything that happened before 2023-Mar-01.
3. I do not want to overwrite the existing content with the old content. If a page has more recent updates (made after 2023-Mar-01) than the backup, then these updates must be retained.

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what I've tried so far

1st command I've tried:

java -Xmx4g -jar ./crx2oak-1.10.0-all-in-one.jar \
/home/ec2-user/prod-efs /opt/aem/author/crx-quickstart/repository \
--copy-orphaned-versions=false --copy-versions=2023-03-07 \
--include-paths=/content/brand1,/content/brand2 \
--merge-paths=/content/brand1,/content/brand2

The problem with the command above is that it has overwritten my destination.

Before I ran the command, I checked QueryBuilder how many pages have been edited since 2023-Aug-01 and I got 65 pages. After running the command, I only got 21 pages on QueryBuilder.

As a an example of the overwriting problem, the cq:lastModified property of a page has changed. Before running the command, the cq:lastModified was 2023-Aug-02. After running the command, the cq:lastModified is now 2023-Feb-23.

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2nd command I've tried:

java -Xmx4g -jar ./crx2oak-1.10.0-all-in-one.jar \
/home/ec2-user/prod-efs /opt/aem/author/crx-quickstart/repository \
--copy-orphaned-versions=false --copy-versions=2023-03-07 \
--include-paths=/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage,/var/audit/com.day.cq.wcm.core.page \
--merge-paths=/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage,/var/audit/com.day.cq.wcm.core.page

But somehow my audit history got messed up. Before running the 2nd command, I can see page history in /sites.html Timeline feature. After running 2nd command, Timeline is now empty.

[kautuk_sahni]

@Mahedi_Sabuj @sherinregi  Can you please review this Question and share your thoughts?