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# XPort

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## Overview

XPort streamlines the migration of Milestone XProtect systems by automating the transfer of camera configurations, user roles, device settings, and media between servers or locations. Designed for system integrators or end-users, XPort minimizes manual work, prevents configuration errors, and accelerates transitions—whether upgrading hardware, consolidating systems, or migrating to the cloud.

## Cybersecurity

XPort moves only the objects you select—cameras, roles, views—via XProtect's APIs. By transferring clean metadata instead of cloning the entire database, it leaves behind dormant malware, stealth accounts, and rogue SQL code that a traditional backup-and-restore would copy wholesale.

Explore how: [Cybersecurity Benefits of XPort](/xport/cybersecurity-benefits-of-xport.md)

## Solutions

A creative combination, adaptation, and repetition of modular workflows helps achieve complex migration solutions.&#x20;

For example, repeated application of the [Move Recorders, Keep Footage](/xport/user-manual/move-recorders-keep-footage.md)workflow may help a siloed deployment consolidate into a single database in one instance. Conversely, the same workflow could be used to divide an overloaded site into multiple sites in another example.

Explore the[Use Cases](/xport/use-cases.md) sections to see use case examples across various verticals.

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## Workflows

The basic building blocks of XPort workflows are pre-built migration sequences for specific, quantized migration tasks. For example, one workflow involves transitioning from an e-code deployment to a C-code deployment, while another focuses on migrating C-code deployments.&#x20;

The following workflows are supported:

1. [E-code to C-code](/xport/user-manual/e-code-to-c-code.md)
2. [Move Recorders, Keep Footage](/xport/user-manual/move-recorders-keep-footage.md)
3. [Upgrade-Everything Workflow](/xport/user-manual/upgrade-everything-workflow.md)


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