What are the steps in the Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration process?

E-commerce is evolving, and Magento is not far behind. Magento 2 was released a long time ago, and more and more Magento 1 stores have already switched to Magento 2. It is important to update the platform version to grow your business in the future. So how to migrate Magento 1 to Magento 2?

Method 1. Using the Data Migration Tool

Precautions:

• stop all cron jobs in Magento 1
• do not make any changes to Magento 1 Admin other than order management during the process
• do not make any changes to the code during the process
• do not make any changes to Magento 2 Admin and storefront during the process

Run the Data Migration Tool for further incremental changes, settings, and data migration:

Step 1. Log in to the Magento server as a user with permissions.

Step 2. Add <magento_root>/bin to your system PATH to run Magento commands from any directory.

Step 3. Bash shell example for CentOS:

export PATH=$PATH:/var/www/html/magento2/bin

Step 4. Command example:

bin/magento migrate:<mode> [-r|--reset] [-a|--auto] {<path to config.xml>}

Step 5. After creating the Data Migration Tool, the following data transfer sequence is assumed:

1. Settings
2. Data
3. Changes

These steps, in turn, consist of a lot of code and commands, which will require high technical skills from you. You will have to deal with fixing code, backing up a database, restoring or fixing databases.

How to migrate to Magento 2 hassle-free?

Looking for the most simple way to upgrade Magento 1 to Magento 2?  Consider using Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration Service. Thanks to this method, all unused M1 extensions will be removed, and suitable M2 extensions, product- and customer-related data will be converted from Magento 1 to Magento 2 without any loss and following all your wishes. Moreover, your M1 theme can be converted and optimized to M2 using this service.