Introduction:

route53-migrate-zone was created to provide a method of migrating a Route53 zone to a new zone or to a new AWS account. There are three use cases, detailed below:

Migrate one domain (source.com) to a new domain (destintion.com)
Migrate one domain (domain.com) to the same domain in a new account (domain.com)
Migrate one domain (source.com) to a new domain in a new account (destination.com)

Directions For Use:

Example of Use:

Open the file config.ini and modify the entries within this file as desired. Then execute route53-migrate-zone as follows: route53-migrate-zone.py

A config.ini file configured as follows will migrate olddomain.com to newdomain.com in the account given by the variables to_secret_key and to_zone_name.

from_zone_name = source.com.
to_zone_name = destination.com.
to_zone_id = Z1U8DOWB9FJWOU

Additional Command Line Options

route53-migrate-zone.py --log=INFO - to see informational events
route53-migrate-zone.py --config ./myconfig.ini - to use the file myconfig.ini instead of the default config.ini file

Explanation of Summary Output:

Records Migrated from source zone: a count of the records that were migrated from source zone to destination zone
Record types selected for migration: a list of the record types selected for migration. An example: ['A', 'CNAME', 'MX', 'TXT']
Records not migrated because they exist in destination zone: these records exist in both the source zone and the destination zone. These records were not migrated.
Records that exist in source zone and destination zone and are identical: these records exist in both the source zone and the destination zone and are identical. Because they are identical there is no reason to move them.
Records that exist in source zone and destination zone and are different: these records exist in both the source zone and the destination zone and are different. These records should probably be examined manually.

Additional Information:

Author: Colin Johnson / colin@cloudavail.com
Date: 2013-06-08
Version 0.1
License Type: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3

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