Carbonite Migrate overview

Carbonite Migrate is an online service that enables migrations of Windows and Linux servers to a public or private cloud. Using only a few clicks in Carbonite Migrate, you can easily automate server migrations for a secure, near-zero downtime experience.

There are four main components to Carbonite Migrate.

• Source—The server you want to migrate is called your source server. The source server can be a physical or virtual server on the ground or in a cloud.
• Target—The new server you are migrating to is called the target server. The target server is a virtual server and it can be hosted on the ground or in a cloud.
• Carbonite Migrate—This is the online service that enables the migration of the source to the target.
• Proxy—If your source or target does not have a public IP address, you will have to use a proxy server for communication between the source or target and the Carbonite Migrate service. The proxy server is not used for communication between the source and target.

See Configurations and ports for details and diagrams of how to configure Carbonite Migrate.

 

Due to limitations provisioning storage for Linux servers in the cloud, Linux source servers can only be migrated to custom target environments at this time. This means you will need to have an existing target server already provisioned and running in your cloud to use as a custom target.

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