# Running remote data migration
**URL:** https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/running-remote-data-migration/1108
**Category:** CloverDX Platform
**Created:** [August 23, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/running-remote-data-migration/1108 "2012-08-23T00:00:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@slechtaj](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/slechtaj)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/running-remote-data-migration/1108/1 "2012-08-23T00:00:00Z")
I am an IT developer, tasked with a rather complicated data migration. I have never
worked on a large data migration before so forgive me if my questions are novice. I am
evaluating tools. I really like what I see in your product. I have downloaded the
community version and have some question after scouring the fag’s and the user’s guide.
I have gone thru all the tutorial videos also… very nice!
If I create all my transformation graphs locally from one DB to another, assuming I have
done my job and they work as they should… what procedure would I use to run them against
the production legacy and new DB’s on a remote server? How does this fundamentally work?
Would I need to install the clover software on the remote server?.. and can what I’m
attempting to do be done utilizing the community version. I’m not sure at this time If I
will be allowed to purchase the more robust software, but either way I need to know as
part of my evaluation how this would work… developing the graphs on a local “test”
machine and then running it against the production server once the graphs have been
created and tested.
---
### Author:  [@slechtaj](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/slechtaj)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/running-remote-data-migration/1108/2 "2012-08-23T08:12:51Z")
Thank you for the email. If you would like to migrate your data from legacy DB to a new one, you do not need to install anything on neither server. You could use a JDBC connection to your remote DB. If that data are too huge to move over the network you might take into consideration our server version CloverETL Enterprise Editions ([http://www.cloveretl.com/products/enterprise-editions](http://www.cloveretl.com/products/enterprise-editions)). With server you can control the ETL operations remotly.