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<h1><?php echo $l->t('Migration Guide');?></h1>
<h2><?php echo $l->t('Nextcloud strives to make migration of customers from ownCloud as seamless as possible. Due to the large technical overlap, the migration of the application is easy. Business processes are equally easily updated.');?></h2>
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<h3><?php echo $l->t('<span class="big">"</span>We require a <span class="big">truly scalable</span> and 100% open source enterprise solution from a <span class="big">reliable partner</span> so we decided to <span class="big">migrate from ownCloud to Nextcloud"</span>');?></h3>
<h2><a href="/pr20160929"><?php echo $l->t('-- Martin Bech, Head of NREN at DeIC');?></a></h2>
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<h2><?php echo $l->t('Why migrate: ownCloud vs Nextcloud');?></h2>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Nextcloud offers significant <a href="https://nextcloud.com/?p=1373">scalability</a>, <a href="https://nextcloud.com/?p=1334">security</a> and <a href="https://nextcloud.com/?p=1332">feature improvements</a> over ownCloud and our experienced support team has already helped over a dozen customers migrate. Our customers appreciate expert help from a German, employee-owned company set up to provide a long term relationship between customers and business.');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Nextcloud is fully licensed under the AGPL, giving you <a href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/why-the-agpl-is-great-for-business-users/">all the benefits of open source</a> and avoiding any risk of mixing a proprietary enterprise edition with open source components.');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('First rate support as well as <a href="https://nextcloud.com/?p=1222">healthy development</a> happening in public are key to our offering. Employing over a dozen former ownCloud engineers as well as many other experienced software developers, we are in the best position to support you in keeping your data secure and easily accessible to your employees.');?></p>
<h2><?php echo $l->t('Technical migration');?></h2>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Moving from ownCloud to Nextcloud follows the same process as a upgrade within either product. You can essentially follow our');?> <a href="<?php echo $DOCUMENTATION_ADMIN; ?>maintenance/manual_upgrade.html" target="_blank" rel="tooltip" title="<?php echo $l->t('Nextcloud administrator Documentation">usual upgrade documentation.</a>');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('The steps are as follows:');?></p>
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<li><?php echo $l->t('1. Enable Maintenance Mode with the command line tool');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('2. Backup existing configuration and database');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('3. Delete the ownCloud code and extract the Nextcloud code');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('4. Copy back the configuration file');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('5. Start the upgrade process with the command line tool');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('6. Disable Maintenance Mode');?></li>
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<p><?php echo $l->t('An even easier way using our new updater is <a href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/get-up-to-date-with-the-new-nextcloud-updater/">detailed in this blog post.</a>');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Find more details in');?> <a href="<?php echo $DOCUMENTATION_ADMIN; ?>maintenance/manual_upgrade.html" target="_blank" rel="tooltip" title="<?php echo $l->t('Nextcloud administrator Documentation">our documentation.</a>');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Note that, as ownCloud does not support skipping releases, upgrades have to go through all releases between the existing ownCloud release and the desired Nextcloud release. We will support upgrades from ownCloud 8.2 and onwards. If you are on a older release, <a href="mailto:support@nextcloud.com">contact our support team</a> or');?> <a href="<?php echo home_url('contact') ?>"><?php echo $l->t('ask sales for an offer.</a>');?></p>
<h2><?php echo $l->t('Upgrade path');?></h2>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Depending on your current ownCloud release, you have to follow a different upgrade path. Nextcloud 9.0 is compatible with ownCloud 9.0; Nextcloud 10.0 is compatible with ownCloud 9.1. You can not skip releases like going from ownCloud 8.0 to Nextcloud 10, that would be skipping ownCloud 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0. You can upgrade from an ownCloud release to a compatible Nextcloud release or one newer. ');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('These are some examples. The minor release (.x below) should always be the latest bugfix release.');?></p>
<ul>
<li><?php echo $l->t('ownCloud 8.0.x -> ownCloud 8.1.x -> ownCloud 8.2.x -> Nextcloud 9.0.x -> Nextcloud 10.0.x');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('ownCloud 8.2.x -> Nextcloud 9.0.x -> Nextcloud 10.0.x');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('ownCloud 9.0.x -> Nextcloud 9.0.x -> Nextcloud 10.0.x');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('ownCloud 9.1.x -> -> Nextcloud 10.0.x -> Nextcloud 11.0.x');?></li>
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<h2><?php echo $l->t('Settings');?></h2>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Nearly all ownCloud settings will be migrated to Nextcloud during the upgrade procedure. That means that internal and public (link) shares keep working, users keep their settings and you will retain app configuration, LDAP and external storage settings and more.');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Settings from proprietary extensions from ownCloud which have open source replacements in Nextcloud, however, will sometimes need to be reconfigured. The following apps have a Nextcloud equivalent but need re-configuration:');?></p>
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<li><?php echo $l->t('File Retention');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('File Firewall');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('File Automated Tagging');?></li>
<li><?php echo $l->t('Files Drop');?></li>
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<p><?php echo $l->t('The open source replacements of these apps in Nextcloud offer at least the same and typically more capabilities. Configuration settings not mentioned in this list will be carried over from ownCloud to Nextcloud during upgrade.');?>
<h2><?php echo $l->t('License Compliance');?></h2>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Nextcloud is licensed exclusively under the AGPL or less restrictive open source licenses, removing any risk of mixing incompatible licenses or other legal issues. If you have not made any changes to the code of ownCloud Server and did not develop custom ownCloud applications, you will not need to do anything to be in compliance with the open source licenses of Nextcloud. Note that theme changes or branding are unaffected by AGPL licensing. Find more information in our FAQ. Our sales team will be happy to <a href="');?><?php echo home_url('contact') ?>"><?php echo $l->t('answer any questions you have.</a>');?></p>
<h2><?php echo $l->t('Take over of support contract');?></h2>
<p><?php echo $l->t('Nextcloud will honor any any valid contract with ownCloud which has started before the 2nd of June for free if a new agreement is signed for a period of at least 12 months.');?></p>
<p><?php echo $l->t('<small>All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners, which might in no way be associated or affiliated with Nextcloud.</small>');?></p>
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