DROPBOX TO ONEDRIVE MIGRATION
1. Dropbox to OneDrive migration with Cloudiway
This guide explains how to migrate your Dropbox content (Files and Folders) to OneDrive for Business.
Performances
When transitioning to OneDrive, it’s crucial to take into account various performance factors to guarantee a smooth migration.
One key consideration is the data size being migrated, as it can significantly influence the migration’s performance. It’s important to note that the Microsoft Graph API incorporates built-in throttling mechanisms. Throttling involves controlling the rate of incoming and outgoing requests to Microsoft servers, aiming to uphold the performance and stability of their services. Consequently, Microsoft limits the number of requests per second.
For additional insights on migration performance, please consult the following article.
Security
Anything you need to know about security during your Drobpox to OneDrive migration is covered in this security ebook.
Licenses
You need to purchase Cloudiway File Migration Licenses. Licenses available in your project are automatically distributed. For more details regarding the license management, check out this page.
Delta Passes
Cloudiway platform supports delta passes. Changes (excepted deletions) are propagated during delta passes.
You can refer to this article for more information : Dropbox To OneDrive migration delta pass mechanism.
Support
Support policies are described in this article: Cloudiway support.
Although we provide support for our products, we do not provide support for third-party products such as Dropbox administration or Microsoft products. If you do not have bandwith or expertise to configure the settings described in this Dropbox To OneDrive migration guide, you may contact our Sales team and engage our Consulting services.
2. Dropbox to OneDrive migration scope
What is Migrated?
- Files
- Folders
- Shared Folders
- Team Folders
- Permissions
- MetaData
What is not Migrated?
- Team Folders. Cloudiway is currently working on implementing it.
Dropbox to OneDrive Migration Considerations about the mapping table
In order to correctly migrate permissions and metadata, you need to fill the mapping table. The mapping table is used to transfer source email addresses into target email address. Any missing entry in the mapping table will result into broken permissions or metadata.
If you later update the mapping table and expect the delta pass to update the missing permissions or metadata, it is not the case. If no modification is made at the source, the delta pass will not detect any change and will not remigrate.
The following article provides more information about the mapping table.
Audience
This guide is aimed at experienced system administrators who are capable of connecting to the remote systems and configure the tenants for the migration.
Consider engaging our consulting team if you don’t feel confortable for performing these actions yourself.
3. Dropbox to OneDrive migration prerequisites
Before you start
Before you start, you will need to ensure you have the details outlined in the following table.
| Name | Description | Location |
| Cloudiway login | Stores details and provides communication between the systems you already use. | https://portal.cloudiway.com |
| Help center | Our extensive help center is always accessible, with videos, troubleshooting tools, samples and more. | https://help.cloudiway.com |
SharePoint Administrator Account
| It has to be the primary SharePoint admin account. | We recommend you create a migration account, especially for migration. After all migrations are complete, simply delete this account. We provide the steps below to help you set up an account if you don’t already have one. |
| Mapping table and User List (CSV) | Prepare any mapping tables in CSV format, and User List, ready to upload later on. |
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Source Prerequisites
You need a Dropbox global admin account in order to be able to create and configure the permissions that are required for the connector.The next chapter explains how to create the Dropbox connector and configure its permissions.
Target Prerequisites
The Cloudiway platform uses an Azure Active Directory application for performing the calls. You need administrator tenant credentials to install this application.
The next chapter explains how to create the Microsoft 365 connector and configure its permissions.
4. Dropbox to OneDrive migration process
The migration from Dropbox to OneDrive follows a five step process :
- Connectors creation: They are needed to store the credentials used to connect to the source and the target .
- Generate the migration list.
- Optional : Audit the source
- Run the Pre-Processing task to pre-create the target OneDrives and migrate the permissions.
- Run the migration.
4.1 Create your connectors
- This article for creating your Dropbox connector
- This article for creating your Microsoft 365 connector
4.2 Create your User List
There are three ways to generate the user list.
- by manually creating your entries.
- by discovering the Drobox to OneDrive migration list.
- By uploading the users through a CSV file.
Option 1: Create a single user
Click on MANAGE > Create User and enter the relevant details:
Option 2: Get List
Cloudiway’s Get List tool helps you to retrieve users from your source tenant and will fill automatically your Dropbox to OneDrive migration list.
From the Migration menu, select Get List.
Enter the Source and Target Pool.
Then specify:
- The Target Recipient Type: OneDrive
- The Matching Rule:
- Mail Exact Match: the source email = the target email (bob.marley@sourcedomain.com > bob.marley@sourcedomain.com)
- Keep Email Prefix Same as Source: only the domain name changed (bob.marley@sourcedomain.com > bob.marley@targetdomain.com)
- FirstName.LastName (i.e. bob.marley@targetdomain.com)
- F.LastName (i.e. b.marley@targetdomain.com)
- FLastName (i.e. bmarley@targetdomain.com)
- LastNameF (i.e. marleyb@targetdomain.com)
- The Target Domain.
Click On Get User List. Once the Get List job is completed, the list of users will appear in the User List.
Option 3: CSV File Import
If you have a CSV file of all your users, you can upload the file to Cloudiway.
1. Navigate to Files > User List
2. Click on Manage on the action bar and select Import
3. If required, click on Download sample CSV and add your users to the CSV file.
This article explains how to fill the CSV file.
4. When you have a complete CSV file with the correct headers, click on the BROWSE button.
5. Locate your CSV file within your own file system, and select it.
6. Select the appropriate connectors in the Source and Target fields.
7. Click on the UPLOAD button
If you see any error messages, check your CSV file, and try uploading again.
8. Once the CSV file format is correct, you will see a confirmation message.
4.3 Audit your drives
The audit is optional and purely informative.
Running the audit will determine the size of the Dropbox drive, the number of files and folders to migrate.
1. From the User List , select the users to audit.
2. Click on MIGRATION, then Audit, the status change to FileAudit Scheduled
3. Refresh periodically your page and verify the status.
5. To check the result of the audit, click any line and open the Audit tab;
4.4 Preprocessing
Once your connectors are created and your Dropbox to OneDrive Migration list is filled, you are ready start the migration. First, you need to run the preprocessing task. It has to be run only one time but there is no consequence if you start it more than one time. The preprocessing task will provision the OneDrive site and set the permissions for the migration account.
Select the users and from the action bar, click on MIGRATION and start the PreProcessing task.
Periodically refresh the pages to update the status.
4.4 Migrate
Once the OneDrive is provisioned, you can start the migration. We recommend you run a test migration on a single user first to check that your configuration produces the outcome you expect.
To start your migration, select the users or batch and click on MIGRATION, then Start button. Your batch will be scheduled and will begin as soon as resources are available.
Don’t forget that Cloudiway migration platform supports delta passes and that migrations are therefore incremental.
Every time you restart the migration, only items that haven’t already been copied to the target — or that have been changed since they were copied to the target — will be migrated.
You can monitor your migration from the dashboard.
If you require more information, you can click on any entry in the User List and navigate to the Audit , Logs, or Statistics.
5. Migrate to specific folder
If needed, you can configure the platform to migrate only specific folders. See this article for more information: https://help.cloudiway.com/article/how-to-migrate-files-from-or-to-a-specific-folder/
5.1 Exclude folder
It is also possible to exclude folders from the migration. For Dropbox migration, you need to define only the FolderId, you don’t need to set the path.
6. Dropbox Migration Global Settings
Check this article that fully cover the global settings:
https://help.cloudiway.com/article/migration-global-settings/
7. Troubleshooting
The knowledge base is available at this address: https://help.cloudiway.com/
If you didn’t find a response in this admin guide neither the help center, you could send a ticket from the HELP menu, then Support.
