Artifactory: copy artifacts to new instance

Question

I have an Artifactory instance running an old version of the community software(not pro) that is about to tear down. We experienced lots of index corruption and crashes recently and I'm very concerned about a fatal crash. There's is a lot of artifacts in it and some very precious ones for our business.

I wish to import artifacts from that old instance to a fresh install running the latest version.

I want to know:

• what is the best path?
• is the migration safe, could it trigger instability on the old Arti?
• Is there a way to do a copy/sync will the old Artifactory remains usable?
• is it possible to filter out artifacts that I don't want to copy?

Answer 1

You need to export the artifacts (and, probably, the configuration as well) from the old instance and import them into a new one.

If you have consistency issues, that might affect the export. I would suggest backing up Artifactory (by creating system export), running consistency fix and reindexing and then export again, upgrade and import.

Good news - on the new version you never will have to reindex or run consistency fix :)