Force a remigration

When you remigrate from PI MDB to PI AF, you overwrite everything under the Data Archive element in PI AF with the contents in PI MDB. Remigrate only if you need to change the settings for the PI AF server, the replacement characters, or the replacement suffix.

Note: A remigration is different from a reset. When you reset, you copy from PI AF to PI MDB.

1. In PI SMT, open the AF Link tool (Operation > AF Link).

2. Click the toolbar icon to launch the preparation wizard.

   Follow the prompts in the preparation wizard. The wizard has extensive help available if you are not sure about a step.

3. Stop the PI Base subsystem server. Make sure AF Link has stopped, it should be stopped at the beginning of the MDB to AF Migration wizard.

4. Delete pimdbafmapping.dat from the PI\DAT directory.

5. Start the PI Base subsystem and AF Link server.