UPDATE: Garmin Connect will open it's doors to all Garmin fitness devices on May 26, 2009. Read more...
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With 2008 coming to a close, it’s time for an update. Unfortunately, we must report that we won’t be hitting our December target for migration.
We have been working hard to complete this migration before the end of the year while improving the overall feature set of Garmin Connect. To do this, the teams in San Francisco and Olathe, Kansas have been focused on bringing in the right hardware and database software to ensure the migration of activities from MotionBased to Garmin Connect runs smoothly while maintaining data integrity.
As of December 18, we have accomplished the following tasks for migration:
- Installed new hard drive to store all activities at Garmin Connect
- Optimized hard drive to ensure data integrity
- Migrated all MotionBased activities to a test server to begin testing
What’s left to do before migration:
- Identify bugs and make changes to Garmin Connect code (4 weeks remaining)
- Migrate all MotionBased activities to the production server (4 weeks of transfer time)
The reason the transfer will take 4 weeks is because MotionBased has approximately 5+ million activities on 2+ terabytes of disk space. Each activity must be exported from the test server and imported into the live system.
Based on this 4 week transfer time and the 4 weeks of testing/code fixes, our revised migration date is late February 2009.
We hesitated to update you on this delay until we could be very confident with the new date. This was predicated on the success of installing and partitioning our new storage drive which successfully passed our tests today.
A few reminders…
Once the migration is complete, Garmin Connect will accept data from all current MotionBased customers and MotionBased-compatible USB devices.
MotionBased will be available for upload until the final transition day. After that, it will be available as a read-only site for fitness devices and read-write-upload site for devices not supported on Garmin Connect.
Mac Support - Mac support for the ANT Agent -- used for the Forerunner 50 and 405 -- is now projected for the first quarter of 2009. We are currently testing the beta software with solid results. However, it still needs more rigorous testing before it goes live.
Thank you once again for your patience during this involved procedure. We are excited to be at this stage of development and will keep you posted on further progress.
The MotionBased/Garmin Connect Team
