Legacy Archive Migration

Legacy archives present a compounding problem: the content is in formats that current tools read poorly, the index describing it may itself be proprietary and unsupported, and the people who understood its organization have gone. Extraction is frequently the hardest technical step in any migration, and it has a deadline the organization does not control — when the reading system finally fails, the content becomes inaccessible regardless of whether it was retained.

Centralpoint ingests extracted archive content and applies classification during that ingestion, so material that was never characterized when stored arrives governed. Because the transformation and the governance happen together, an extraction project produces a usable, classified estate rather than a second undifferentiated archive in a newer format.