Migrate aNd Manage

Description

Even installing Linux is a breeze. Thousands of Windows user found Linux is difficult to use and worry about the competity of documents. The goal of Migrate aNd Manage is provide a one-stop data migration to migrate all user data from your old Operating System to Linux during installation or even after installation. It currently support Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OSX. In the future, mNm will support other OS, such as Ubuntu Linux, HP Unix.

Features

= Support post install files migration
= Support XP/Vista/OSX
= Support random flags syntax in command mode
= Support listing users from XP and Vista
= Support any Linux or Unix based system that has python installed and same user folder structure.
= Support automatic user detection or with a given user name(s)
= Support copying file(s) and folder(s) to specified location
= If given location is not a home folder of the OS type given, it will report error message and exit
= When duplicate file(s) or folder(s) is detected, wdmt has an option to replace older file/folder, backup existing Fedora user folder(s) or replace existing user folder(s)
= Auto create user list with a temporary password and migrate folders and files

Program Logic Flow v0.1 20081012

START

• Show welcome page and descriptions
• Search Windows User Folders
• Gathering folders information
• Check if Fedora User parition is enough for all documents from Windows users
• Prompt if administrator wants every thing automatic -> go to AUTO else -> go to MANUAL

AUTO

• List all possible users and ask if every thing is correct
• Generate for dummy password for each user
• Automatic create User
• Automatic move User documents to each user directory
• Automatic migrate bookmarks to Konqueror, Firefox

• See note about mail migration below for similar ideas. (http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/browser/components/migration/src/)

MANUAL

• List all possible users and ask for individual password
• Prompt each folder that copy to Fedora partition, and see if administrator wants to move files to a specific folder
• Prompt each user when move bookmarks to Konqueror, Firefox

Future Development / Advanced Functions:

• environment migration
• mail accounts, import mail database (outlook, thunderbird, etc)

• (humph, Nov 3, 2008) This can be done via Thunderbird's -migration command line switch, in order to pull all mail/settings into the current profile (i.e., assumes a profile). However, since this produces an mbox, you could also use it to then dump to some other mail client. Also, this method still needs user intervention, and could be automated to accept path(s). See code in http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/migration/src/

• Windows a-like environment setting
• automatic download applications associate all file type
• IM migration

Code

The demo code is posted in [[1]] in this wiki at this moment. I will put it in fedorahosted in the future.

Project Contributor(s)

Rahul Sundaram: Rahul was the one who raise the idea of Migrate aNd Manage. Great idea, Rahul!!

David Humphrey: resources resource on mail and bookmark migration to Firefox on wiki and IRC. Thank you David.

Mohak Vyas: gave me some more idea how user profiles, folders works. Thanks Mo!

Milton Paiva Neto: show me some trick on how to handle functions in better way and using "case' instead of "if" on argument checking.

Links

Migrate aNd Manage in SourceForce.net

Migrate aNd Manage in Fedora Project Wiki

Migrate aNd Manage in OpenSource@Seneca

Ubuntu MigrationAssistance Page

Ubuntu MigrationAssistance Capture from www.michaellarabel.com

To Do

Item	Description	Status	Note
Test Machine Setup	Install Vista and Fedora in same hard disk	DONE: 20080920	install in a laptop
Test Mount and link	Test mounting and linking single user folder with known path	DONE: 20080921	linked music, folder to home directory successfully, still testing if any conflict in regular use
Test User migration	try to added user and change password in BASH script	DONE: 20081012	User add successfully and user password changed successfully
Python functions test	Test if desire function works in Python	DONE: 20081012	Sucessfully using file and directory handling
file/directory search functions planning	plan the user/files/directory handling structure and functions for WDMT	DONE: 2008/10/29	may update structure later
WinUserSearch	creat python function to search existing XP/Vista user	DONE: 2008/11/06	return/output a list of user in a list, all user folder plus adminstrator minus general folder(local, public)
Copy/move/replace folders, files with error checking	automatic or manual	DONE: 2008/11/11	possible bug(s) when handling link
User Create and temporary password	create a list of user with given list or detected list	DONE: 2008/11/15	done, with automatic documents migration
Automatic mounting NTFS/HFS	detect and mount, save the location and partition type to be used in other function	Target Date: 2008/11/20	DONE: 2008/11/26
add link function	link to folder instead of copy	Target Date: 2008/11/25	DONE: 2008/11/30
add all options and functions and get ready for 0.3	finish all possible functions and option that in most cases for installation or post-installation	Target Date: 2008/11/27	DONE: 2008/12/02
Post in Fedorahosted	Post in Fedorahosted	Target Date: 2008/12/20
Study firstboot	Understand and have a draft plan	Target Date: 2008/12/20
Contact firstboot owner	Contact the owner of firstboot and ask for opinion	Target Date: 2008/12/20
improve link handling	may have bug if target/source is a link instead of file/folder	Target Date: 2008/11/20
Free Space Detection	check avaliable space and see if it's possible to migrate all user data to fedora directory.	Target Date: 2008/11/25

ROADMAP

Week	Description	Note	Status
Week 1-2	Host mNm current version in Fedorahosted, bug fix and improve script	fedorahosted account obtained	In Progress
Week 3-4	communicate with firstboot owner and community	See if Professor David Humph's idea on mail migrations
Week 5-6	Start programing on GUI
Week 7-8	merge GUI with current command script
Week 9-10	Testing
Week 11-12	Bug fix and improve
Week 13-14	Beta version Relase