Preparations for migrating data between Alibaba Cloud OSS buckets - Data Online Migration

This topic describes the operations that you must perform before you migrate data.

Step 1: Create a destination bucket

Create an Object Storage Service (OSS) bucket as the destination to store the migrated data. For more information, see Create buckets.

Step 2: Create a RAM user and grant permissions to the RAM user

Important

The Resource Access Management (RAM) user is used to perform the data migration task. You must create RAM roles and perform migration as the RAM user. We recommend that you create the RAM user within the Alibaba Cloud account that owns the source or destination OSS bucket.
For more information, see Create a RAM user and grant permissions to the RAM user.

Log on to the RAM console with an Alibaba Cloud account. On the Users page, find the RAM user that you created and click Add Permissions in the Actions column.

System policy: Attach the AliyunOSSImportFullAccess policy to the RAM user.
Custom policy: Attach a custom policy that includes the ram:CreateRole, ram:CreatePolicy, ram:AttachPolicyToRole, and ram:ListRoles permissions to the RAM user.
For more information about how to attach a custom policy, see Create custom policies. The following sample code provides an example of the custom policy:
```
{
    "Version":"1",
    "Statement":[
        {
            "Effect":"Allow",
            "Action":[
                "ram:CreateRole",
                "ram:CreatePolicy",
                "ram:AttachPolicyToRole",
                "ram:ListRoles"
            ],
            "Resource":"*"
        }
    ]
}
```

Step 3: Grant permissions on the source bucket to a RAM role

Perform the corresponding operations based on whether the source bucket belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account.

Note

This current Alibaba Cloud account refers to the account that is used to log on to the Data Online Migration console. The operations vary based on whether the source bucket belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account.

The source bucket belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account

Automatic authorization
We recommend that you complete the authorization in the Data Online Migration console. For more information, see the "Step 2: Create a source data address" section of the Migrate data topic.
Manual authorization

Note

You can perform manual authorization in the following scenarios:

You want to grant permissions on multiple source buckets to a RAM role. This allows you to effectively manage multiple source buckets.
You do not want to create more RAM roles because the number of RAM roles within the current Alibaba Cloud account is close to the upper limit.
Automatic authorization is not applicable or cannot be used.

1. Create a RAM role that is used to migrate data

Log on to the RAM console in which the RAM user is created. On the Roles page, click Create Role.

Select Alibaba Cloud Service for the Select Trusted Entity parameter.
Select Normal Service Role for the Role Type parameter.
Enter the role name in the RAM Role Name field. The role name must be lowercase.
Select Data Online Migration for the Select Trusted Service parameter.

2. Grant permissions on the source bucket to the RAM role

On the Roles page, find the created RAM role and click Grant Permission in the Actions column.

Custom policy: Attach a custom policy that includes the oss:List* and oss:Get* permissions to the RAM role.

For more information about how to attach a custom policy, see Create custom policies. The following sample code provides an example of the custom policy:

Note

The following policy is for reference only. Replace <mySrcBucket> with the name of the source bucket.

For more information about RAM policies for OSS, see Common examples of RAM policies.

{
  "Version": "1",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "oss:List*",
        "oss:Get*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "acs:oss:*:*:<mySrcBucket>",
        "acs:oss:*:*:<mySrcBucket>/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

The source bucket does not belong to the current Alibaba Cloud account

1. Create a RAM role that is used to migrate data

Log on to the RAM console in which the RAM user is created. On the Roles page, click Create Role.

Select Alibaba Cloud Service for the Select Trusted Entity parameter.
Select Normal Service Role for the Role Type parameter.
Enter the role name in the RAM Role Name field. The role name must be lowercase.
Select Data Online Migration for the Select Trusted Service parameter.

2. Grant permissions on the source bucket to the RAM role

Important

If you configure a bucket policy by specifying policy statements to grant the RAM role the required permissions, the new bucket policy overwrites the existing bucket policy. Make sure that the new bucket policy contains the content of the existing bucket policy. Otherwise, the authorization based on the existing bucket policy may fail.

Log on to the OSS console with the Alibaba Cloud account that owns the source bucket.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Buckets. On the Buckets page, click the name of the source bucket.
In the left-side pane of the bucket details page, choose Permission Control > Bucket Policy.
On the Bucket Policy tab, click Add by Syntax. On the page that appears, click Edit, enter the custom bucket policy in the code editor, and then click Save.
- Grant the RAM role the permissions to query and read all resources in the source bucket.

Note

The following policy is for reference only. Replace <otherSrcBucket> with the name of the source bucket, <otherUid> with the ID of the Alibaba Cloud account that owns the source bucket, <myUid> with the ID of the Alibaba Cloud account that is used to log on to the Data Online Migration console, and <roleName> with the name of the RAM role that you created. For more information about RAM policies for OSS, see Common examples of RAM policies.

{
  "Version": "1",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "oss:List*",
        "oss:Get*",
        "oss:Put*",
        "oss:AbortMultipartUpload"
      ],
      "Principal": [
         "arn:sts::<myUid>:assumed-role/<roleName>/*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "acs:oss:*:<otherUid>:<otherSrcBucket>",
        "acs:oss:*:<otherUid>:<otherSrcBucket>/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Step 4: Grant permissions on the destination bucket to the RAM role

Perform the corresponding operations based on whether the destination bucket belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account.

The destination bucket belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account

Automatic authorization
We recommend that you complete the authorization in the Data Online Migration console. For more information, see the "Step 3: Create a destination data address" section of the Migrate data topic.
Manual authorization
1. Grant permissions on the destination bucket to the RAM role
On the Roles page, find the created RAM role and click Grant Permission in the Actions column.
- Custom policy: Attach a custom policy that includes the oss:List*, oss:Get*, oss:Put*, and oss:AbortMultipartUpload* permissions to the RAM role.
For more information about how to attach a custom policy, see Create custom policies. The following sample code provides an example of the custom policy:
Note
The following policy is for reference only. Replace <myDestBucket> with the name of the destination bucket.
For more information about RAM policies for OSS, see Common examples of RAM policies.
```
{
  "Version": "1",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "oss:List*",
        "oss:Get*",
        "oss:Put*",
        "oss:AbortMultipartUpload"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "acs:oss:*:*:<myDestBucket>",
        "acs:oss:*:*:<myDestBucket>/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

The destination bucket does not belong to the current Alibaba Cloud account

1. Grant permissions on the destination bucket to the RAM role

Important

Log on to the OSS console with the Alibaba Cloud account that owns the destination bucket.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Buckets. On the Buckets page, click the name of the destination bucket.
In the left-side pane of the bucket details page, choose Permission Control > Bucket Policy.
On the Bucket Policy tab, click Add by Syntax. On the page that appears, click Edit, enter the custom bucket policy in the code editor, and then click Save.
- Grant the RAM role the permissions to query, read, delete, and write all resources in the destination bucket.

Note

The following policy is for reference only. Replace <otherDestBucket> with the name of the destination bucket, <otherUid> with the ID of the Alibaba Cloud account that owns the destination bucket, <myUid> with the ID of the Alibaba Cloud account that is used to log on to the Data Online Migration console, and <roleName> with the name of the RAM role that you created. For more information about RAM policies for OSS, see Common examples of RAM policies.

{
  "Version": "1",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "oss:List*",
        "oss:Get*",
        "oss:Put*",
        "oss:AbortMultipartUpload"
      ],
      "Principal": [
         "arn:sts::<myUid>:assumed-role/<roleName>/*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "acs:oss:*:<otherUid>:<otherDestBucket>",
        "acs:oss:*:<otherUid>:<otherDestBucket>/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Step 5: Restore data in the source bucket

Before you create a migration task to migrate data of the Archive storage class, you must manually restore the data. Take note of the following items when you restore the data:

Before you create a source data address and a migration task, make sure that data of the Archive storage class is restored.
Specify the number of days during which the restored data remains in the restored state based on the amount of data that you want to migrate. This can prevent data from entering the archived state during data migration.
You may be charged for the restoration operation. The fee may be relatively high. For more information about the billing methods, contact the service provider that offers the source bucket.

Note

Data Online Migration does not restore data in archived files at the source data address during data migration. The files that are not restored or are being restored cannot be migrated.

For more information about how to restore archived objects in an OSS bucket, see Restore objects.

Step 1: Create a destination bucket

Step 2: Create a RAM user and grant permissions to the RAM user

Step 3: Grant permissions on the source bucket to a RAM role

The source bucket belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account

Automatic authorization

Manual authorization

1. Create a RAM role that is used to migrate data

2. Grant permissions on the source bucket to the RAM role

The source bucket does not belong to the current Alibaba Cloud account

1. Create a RAM role that is used to migrate data

2. Grant permissions on the source bucket to the RAM role

Step 4: Grant permissions on the destination bucket to the RAM role

The destination bucket belongs to the current Alibaba Cloud account

Automatic authorization

Manual authorization

1. Grant permissions on the destination bucket to the RAM role

The destination bucket does not belong to the current Alibaba Cloud account

1. Grant permissions on the destination bucket to the RAM role

Step 5: Restore data in the source bucket