[ISS Support Case] Historian 2020 Migration Guidance

Last updated: March 6th, 2025

Description

Going to a new virtual server OS 2022 Interested in recreating our historian server at 2020 so it matches all of the other nodes in the galaxy. Needs guidence on migrating data. Install Server Software Migrate Data No time crunch, objective to get this leave existing infrastructure in place. Dedicated tag server serving 80 - 90 tags Will also be running Factory Talk Asset Manager Also (plan is to get Historian up, running etc). Old server killed Address Rockwell 'stuff' 3-5 day Rockwell support

Author: Kevin Modlin
Published: March 6th, 2025

Details:

Product: Historian

Version: 2020

Solution: [Solution is visible below when you're logged in and have a current subscription]

Date Created:	05/10/2024
Case:	87040

Give feedback about this article

Recommended articles

[ISS Support Case] Historian loses connection after shutting down

If the historian is shut down and disabled then re-enabled it doesn't connect to tags that haven't changed. Reboot re-establishes connection.

[ISS Support Case] Trying to access old history blocks

They have a very old system they're trying to open a trend or see the data, but they don't see a trend program and can't figure out how to open the file. They believe they have the data, but it's running in demo mode and won't show data. This is an offline PC and they want to avoid putting it online, so we can't do a screen share.

[ISS Support Case] Trend SQL Login Failure

Client reached out due to receiving time out error message when logging into SQL to View Trends remotely on Development node.

[ISS Support Case] Wanting to pull 9 months of historized data

-Customer is wanting Historized data from the last 9 months in a .CSV file. Or in SQL. and wants to know the best practices.