After a registry has been migrated, individual devices can be migrated using the CLI migration tool. This tool allows for devices to be migrated multiple times. Please find more More information is available here.
As documented in the link above the Migration Tool The migration tool requires a terminal to stay open while the migration proceeds. This may be cumbersome if the migration would take takes a very long time. In that case, do the following:
Start the migration tool running in a terminal as instructed in the link.
Once devices and or gateways start getting migrated, type Ctrl Z to pause.
Type bg followed by Enter to resume the operation in the BACKGROUNDbackground. The operation will resume but will still output messages to stdout.
At this point you You can close your terminal, but the migration will continue.