title: When migrating from an old Artifactory instance to a new one, what is the point of copying $ARTIFACTORY_HOM/data/filestore?
body: <p>Artifactory recommends the steps outlined here when moving from an old Artifactory server to a new one: <a href="https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/what-is-the-best-way-to-migrate-a-large-artifactory-instance-with-minimal-downtime/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/what-is-the-best-way-to-migrate-a-large-artifactory-instance-with-minimal-downtime/</a></p>
  
  <p>Under both methods it says that you're supposed to copy over $ARTIFACTORY_HOME/data/filestore, but then you just go ahead an export the old data and import it into the new instance, and in the first method you also rsync the files. This seems like you're just doing the exact same thing three times in a row. JFrog really doesn't explain why each of these steps is necessary and I don't understand what each does differently that cannot be done by the other.</p>