Yes, we absolutely are building tools to allow self service migrations.
However, there will be downtime. I don't think there is any way around this
unless you are willing to accept data loss (the data that is written to the
M/S app while the migration is happening that is not copied over).
Fortunately, the downtime can be minimized to under a few hours.

We will not disable applications on master/slave. We just cannot provide an
SLA for master/slave apps. In the long term, we *may* disable the option to
create new master/slave applications.

Ikai Lan
Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine
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On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ronoaldo José de Lana Pereira <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Ikay,
>
> You said "for everyone who deploys using High Replication datastore". Is
> this a hint that the Master/Slave will be discontinued when AppEngine leaves
> preview?
>
> I know that you and the AppEngine team are very busy, but are you planning
> to build tools to help us migrate a live app from MS to HR? My app has
> around 5G of stored data, and is heavily used all day (around 150 reqs/sec),
> so there is almost no room for a downtime migration period if that takes too
> long to complete. Does it takes too long or is there any way to ask for help
> when migrating this so it will be faster? Also, we had the bad idea to store
> the encoded key strings to reference other objects in the datastore. If we
> migrate the app from one appid to another, all those references will break,
> right? Can we do something like migrate the storage but keep the appid? That
> wold be great!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ronoaldo
>
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