Migrating from an enterprise geodata base to other

Question

We are in the process of taking down and sde enterprise geodatabase (the gis program is being scrapped). is there any way to move the data from our enterprise database to something else, ie a file geodatabase so that If they decide to bring back the program, the data is not all lost?

Thanks

LadyMahecha · Accepted Answer

Hi,

To copy an entire geodatabase, use the Export > XML Workspace Document command to export the entire database to an XML file. You can then create a new, empty file geodatabase and use Import > XML Workspace Document to import the data from the XML file into the file geodatabase.