Transport Mailboxes between different systems

[raxs]

Hi,

I've recently been in a situation where I had to transport 35 mailboxes from one GW7 system to another GW7 system (2 seperate networks). The way we did this was by archiving each of the mailboxes in the first system, renamed the fid and restore in the mailboxes created in the new system.

Besides that this was a very time consuming and tedious procedure, especially with some large mailboxes involved, we also encountered situations where archives were corrupted for some reason.

I expected that such 'migration' would be far easier then one from for example Exchange to GroupWise, but after this experience give me the latter anytime!

Did I overlook something and IS there a much easier and less risky method of performing such migration?
I expect to have a couple more of these migrations coming up, so any suggestions are welcome.

Regards,
Eduard