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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2017 New Vector Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+Moves a list of remote media from one media store to another.
+
+The input should be a list of media files to be moved, one per line. Each line
+should be formatted::
+
+    <origin server>|<file id>
+
+This can be extracted from postgres with::
+
+    psql --tuples-only -A -c "select media_origin, filesystem_id from
+        matrix.remote_media_cache where ..."
+
+To use, pipe the above into::
+
+    PYTHON_PATH=. ./scripts/move_remote_media_to_new_store.py <source repo> <dest repo>
+"""
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+
+import sys
+
+import os
+
+import shutil
+
+from synapse.rest.media.v1.filepath import MediaFilePaths
+
+logger = logging.getLogger()
+
+
+def main(src_repo, dest_repo):
+    src_paths = MediaFilePaths(src_repo)
+    dest_paths = MediaFilePaths(dest_repo)
+    for line in sys.stdin:
+        line = line.strip()
+        parts = line.split('|')
+        if len(parts) != 2:
+            print("Unable to parse input line %s" % line, file=sys.stderr)
+            exit(1)
+
+        move_media(parts[0], parts[1], src_paths, dest_paths)
+
+
+def move_media(origin_server, file_id, src_paths, dest_paths):
+    """Move the given file, and any thumbnails, to the dest repo
+
+    Args:
+        origin_server (str):
+        file_id (str):
+        src_paths (MediaFilePaths):
+        dest_paths (MediaFilePaths):
+    """
+    logger.info("%s/%s", origin_server, file_id)
+
+    # check that the original exists
+    original_file = src_paths.remote_media_filepath(origin_server, file_id)
+    if not os.path.exists(original_file):
+        logger.warn(
+            "Original for %s/%s (%s) does not exist",
+            origin_server, file_id, original_file,
+        )
+    else:
+        mkdir_and_move(
+            original_file,
+            dest_paths.remote_media_filepath(origin_server, file_id),
+        )
+
+    # now look for thumbnails
+    original_thumb_dir = src_paths.remote_media_thumbnail_dir(
+        origin_server, file_id,
+    )
+    if not os.path.exists(original_thumb_dir):
+        return
+
+    mkdir_and_move(
+        original_thumb_dir,
+        dest_paths.remote_media_thumbnail_dir(origin_server, file_id)
+    )
+
+
+def mkdir_and_move(original_file, dest_file):
+    dirname = os.path.dirname(dest_file)
+    if not os.path.exists(dirname):
+        logger.debug("mkdir %s", dirname)
+        os.makedirs(dirname)
+    logger.debug("mv %s %s", original_file, dest_file)
+    shutil.move(original_file, dest_file)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description=__doc__,
+        formatter_class = argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-v", action='store_true', help='enable debug logging')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "src_repo",
+        help="Path to source content repo",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "dest_repo",
+        help="Path to source content repo",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    logging_config = {
+        "level": logging.DEBUG if args.v else logging.INFO,
+        "format": "%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(lineno)d - %(levelname)s - %(message)s"
+    }
+    logging.basicConfig(**logging_config)
+
+    main(args.src_repo, args.dest_repo)