Thank you for reading this and thank you in advance.
This is pretty new to me, I have installed Crystal Server several times before but never had to do much with it and the person that looked after it left a year ago.
So I have been tasked to migrate all the data from our current SAP Crystal BO 4 server to another.
It gets slightly complicated, the company I used to work for was recently acquired and now they want me to move the BO server across to their data-centre on their domain but keeping all the data intact, more the reports not the historical data. I understand that I might have to change a few things but don't want to recreate all the reports and dependencies. At the same time the IT team will now have to look after the reporting.
The new company doesn't currently have any reporting system in their environment and thus want to use ours going forward.
I have read several documents and forums but just can't seem to find a method that will do the trick.
The new BO 4 server is up and running at the same function level/SP as the current production server.
So I have tried Promotion Management, I added pretty much everything needed, then managed the dependencies and exported without any errors, on the new server I get an error(in the background) straight up when importing, although it sits and spins around for ages but nothing come from it.
I looked at using Crystal Reports to save the reports and then import them but after speaking to the person that managed it back in the day she advised me its not just as simple as that, there is a few things that needs to be done to make the report work again.
I read about coping the input data folder and importing the DB directly but figured that would not have a good outcome in the end.
Is there anyone that had done something similar, or know how to get it across with the least amount of trouble. Even if it's a bit of work as long as I can get it across, that will be great.
The last resort will be to learn how the entire system works and at least get the reports across but then fix up all the dependencies, schedules etc.
Just not sure where to start to be honest.
Thank you again.
Marius