move service applications from one farm to another farm in SharePoint 2010

Question

Would like to move the below service applications from one farm to another:

please suggest?

Wictor Wilen MCA MCM MVP · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-07 13:31:05Z

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For the Managed Metadata SA: copy (backup/restore) the database and recreate the MMS SA in the new farm pointing to the restored DB.

For Web Analytics: why would you ever want to do that? The information is tied to the farm it comes from.

answered Jun 7 '12 at 13:31

Wictor Wilen MCA MCM MVP
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	Web Analytics consumes high CPU usage on the DB server, so decided to move it to SAF...any suggestion? – Karthikeyan Jun 7 '12 at 13:36
	Yes, Web Analytics is a resouce consuming beast. But you asked about moving it from one farm to another farm? Just recreate the WA SA on the new farm and start from scratch. – Wictor Wilen MCA MCM MVP Jun 7 '12 at 13:42
	do not want to lose the existing WA stats, is there a way to bring those data into the new WA? – Karthikeyan Jun 7 '12 at 13:46
	The data in the WA will be worthless unless you restore the whole farm. – Wictor Wilen MCA MCM MVP Jun 7 '12 at 14:07

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