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# From The Migration Trenches

Hard-won lessons, real-world stories, and candid insights from executing hundreds of data migrations.

5 posts in **From The Migration Trenches**.

## Posts

- [How to Roll Back a Failed Migration After Go-Live](https://clonepartner.com/blog/how-to-roll-back-a-failed-migration-after-go-live/) — From The Migration Trenches · by Raaj · 2026-05-15. Rollback is harder than the original migration and often impossible after 72 hours. This guide covers triage, three rollback patterns, and platform-specific constraints for reversing a failed SaaS migration.
- [Sage Intacct to Xero Migration: How a 5-Day Financial Data Migration Was Completed](https://clonepartner.com/blog/sage-intacct-to-xero-migration/) — From The Migration Trenches · by Raaj · 2026-03-03. Welcome back to From the Migration Trenches, the series where we break down the real, behind-the-scenes work of moving data. We share the hard deadlines, the technical roadblocks, and the exact steps we take to get the job done.
- [Migrating Dynamics 365 On-Premise to Cloud: Escaping the SSIS Bottleneck with JSONata](https://clonepartner.com/blog/dynamics-365-on-premise-to-cloud-migration/) — Microsoft Dynamics 365, From The Migration Trenches · by Raaj · 2026-02-24. If you are migrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 from on-premise to the cloud, standard tools like SSIS and KingswaySoft often cause project-stalling bottlenecks. This technical guide details how to replace slow, UI-bound SSIS packages with self-contained, JSONata-powered binaries. By leveraging declarative YAML mappings and automation , engineering teams can bypass workflow fatigue, execute complex data merges, and reduce debugging cycles from four hours to just twenty minutes.
- [Migrating Recruitee to Manatal: Reverse-Engineering Internal APIs When Official Endpoints Fail](https://clonepartner.com/blog/recruitee-to-manatal-migration/) — From The Migration Trenches · by Raaj · 2026-02-24. Are you struggling to migrate candidate tags from Recruitee to Manatal because of missing public API endpoints? This technical guide breaks down how to solve this exact data migration challenge by reverse-engineering the target platform's internal frontend API.
- [Migrating Magento to Wix: Why UI Plugins Break SEO and Business Continuity](https://clonepartner.com/blog/magento-to-wix-migration-seo-strategy/) — From The Migration Trenches · by Raaj · 2026-02-23. Standard UI plugins often fail Magento-to-Wix migrations because of the architectural mismatch between Magento’s EAV model and Wix’s document-style API. To prevent broken links, lost customer history, and 404 errors, businesses should use a custom ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) approach. This method ensures data integrity by directly querying the MySQL database, handling password hashing incompatibilities, and implementing programmatic link rewriting to save organic search traffic.