datamigration
nounUK /ˈdeɪtə maɪˈɡreɪʃən/
US /ˈdeɪtə maɪˈɡreɪʃən/
Moving information from one computer place to another.
The school did a data migration to move all student records to a new system.
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2. The process of changing how data is stored so a new program can read it.
The data migration changed old spreadsheets into a modern database format.
3. A planned project to move a company's files to new computers.
The data migration took three weeks and finished without losing any files.
4. Copying information to a safer place, like the cloud.
Their data migration put all the photos safely online.