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 Windows Data Migration is provide a one-stop data migration to migrate all Windows data from a Windows System to Linux during installation or even after installation. It will support XP and Vista Windows data.
Features
= A user-friendly, simple GUI with advanced setting will provide the ease of use and flexibility to new comer. = File System (folder) sharing will provide the flexibility when new linux user needs to rely on Windows when needed. User can save data in a special directory/folder for Windows System. = All instance messager, images, audio, movies and documents will be migrated and supported. Associated open-source software, freeware will be installed during migration. =
After a typical user has installed Linux in a pre-existing windows system, there is a number of configuration steps that must be taken before they get a comfortable working environment. This includes personal data like pictures, music, mails etc but also settings like wallpaper. The goal would be to lessen that pain and provide a relatively familiar working environment right after installation.
Basic Functions
Data Migration
- copying all information and documents to linux partition
- or having a windows-linux share partition or folder
Documents migrations
(file will be copied automatically in the user folders
- image (jpeg,gif)
- audio (mp3, wav, rm)
- movie (avi, mpeg4, divx, xvid, rm, mov)
- documents (xls, doc, rtf, txt, wri)
- wallpaper
User Migration
- User name search and add with password
Program Logic Flow v0.1 20081012
START
- Show welcome page and descriptions
- Search Windows User Folders
- Gethering 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
- Ask for dummy password for each user
- Automatic create User
- Automatic move User documents to each user directory
- Automatic migrate bookmarks to Konqueror, Firefox
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. See also 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 [discussion page] in this wiki at this moment
Links
Windows Data Migration Tool in Fedora Project Wiki:
Windows Data Migration Tool 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 | Target Date: 2008/11/05 | return/output a list of user in a list, all user folder plus adminstrator minus general folder(local, public), or.. just detect usage? |
| usrcrt Function in Fedora (list) | creat python function to add user list in Fedora | Target Date: 2008/11/05 | support list of user that generated from WinUserSearch function, and it will generate a temporary password aslo, usrcrt -l UserList -p TempPassword |
| spacechk Function | get a list of users and see how big the user documents directories(home directory) is and check the target space has enough space to move all files | Target Date: 2008/11/14 | spacechk -l UserList -t TargetDirectory |
| mvfatdir Function | movie a list of directories to target directories, it will check the mount and permission status, and it will also change the permission to 644 or as user specified | Target Date: 2008/11/14 | mvfatdir -s FatDirList -t TargetList -p Permission (644 by default) |
| Bookmark Migration Functions Planning | find default IE/Fireforx bookmark and copy/migrate to Firefox bookmark, will check if source and target conditions | next | firefox only |
| Function support check for GUI tools | make sure the function would support the GUI interface | next |
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PLAN
| Subject | Description | Target Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python Code Complete | finish all function that needs for basic function in Python | 15th Nov 2008 | |
| GUI Interface | Finish all connection between Python code and GUI Interface | 1 Dec 2008 | |
| Test Version | Putting Test version in Fedora site | 15 Dec 2008 |