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Automated File Migrations and Developer Operations.

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What you need is a Dev Ops for FileMaker

A Developer Operations ( DevOps ) tool is a tool that helps developers automate the tedious and error-prone processes of deploying, migrating, and monitoring their solutions.

In the case of data migrations, a DevOps tool needs to provide the ability to:

1. Completely automate the process of moving files from one server to another.
2. Setup automatic Data Migrations using the FileMaker DataMigrator utility.
3. Add your own custom logic to it so you can perform the types of migrations that you need to perform.

With a Developer Operations tool, you will be able to create full automatic multi-server deployments and data migrations that run at the push of the button or on a regular schedule.

Otto does all that and a whole lot more!

FileMaker Migration Assistant Tool vs. Manual:
Best Practices to Migrate Changes to a Live FileMaker Server

Tips from 360Works Senior Developer and Product Manager, Joe Martin

We are writing this article to share approaches to upgrading, modifying, or making changes to a production FileMaker file on FileMaker Server.

In the past, FileMaker developers haven't had many options for rolling out new changes to their live databases.

Even if you were cautious, and did your development in a separate Dev copy of your production file, it was difficult to migrate these changes to your production file.

You could roll your own deployment workflow, scripting FileMaker imports for each table in your solution, and update this workflow whenever you added new tables or fields.

You can create a new application in Zoho Creator by importing FileMaker database into Zoho Creator.

The FileMaker Migration Tool is a simple tool to upload your existing Filemaker dabatabse applications to Zoho Creator by following the steps given below:

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