index the data mover is adapted to move data from the source server to the target server in accordance with the data migration operations contained in the index the data mover has an attribute corresponding to the associated attribute of at least one data migration operation contained in the index the attribute indicating the type of data migration operations that can be performed by the data mover application_number US 201615150729 A description detailed embodiments of the claimed structures and methods are disclosed herein however it can be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely illustrative of the claimed structures and methods that may be embodied in various forms this invention may however be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the exemplary embodiments set forth herein rather these exemplary embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the scope of this invention to those skilled in the art in the description details of well known features and techniques may be omitted to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the presented embodiments fig1 provides an overview of an index data mover relationship according to an embodiment of the invention with reference to fig1 the source server 300 contains source data which is to be migrated to target data in the target server 400 the index 200 contains an index of the source data in the source server 300 the index 200 uses a normalized data model that is independent of the format in which data is actually held in the source server 300 the index 200 is generated using automated data collectors and importers the data mover 100 is a component that moves data from the source server 300 to the target server 400 based on the information.