Advanced Strategies to Migrate from Dropbox to Other Clouds

If you are planning to migrate from Dropbox to other cloud platforms, you need to have a proper strategy to ensure you do not go wrong in any area. We are here to help you strategize your company’s Dropbox migration with some of the most advanced insights that we have shared below.

Use a Tool That Supports Large-Scale Migration

First off, it is essential to use a tool like CloudFuze Migrate that supports the migration of thousands of TBs and PBs of data when migrating from Dropbox to OneDrive, Google Drive, or any other cloud platform. This is especially important if your company has many years of data to migrate away from Dropbox cloud storage. 

By using such a tool, you can avoid the risk of downtime, which, otherwise, can lead to user impact and operations disruption. Avoiding downtime also helps ensure on-time completion of the migration project.

Preserving Metadata is a Must

Whether you are migrating from Dropbox to SharePoint, OneDrive, or other clouds, it is critical to preserve rich metadata, such as:

• Sharing permissions
• Timestamps
• File versions
• External shares
• Embedded links

These types of metadata are critical to user collaboration and productivity. By accurately preserving them, you can ensure your company’s smooth operations continuity post-migration.

Use a Tool That Supports Dropbox Paper Migration

When moving away from Dropbox, it is essential to migrate Dropbox Paper files. However, the biggest challenge of migrating Dropbox Paper is file format incompatibility, especially when transitioning to a completely different cloud platform, such as from Dropbox to Google Drive.

As such, you must use a cloud migration tool that supports Dropbox Paper migration out of the box. The tool must be able to migrate Dropbox Paper files to the format Google Drive supports, such as .docx documents.  

Migrate Users in Batches

When you have a lot of users, migrating them all in a single go is not the most ideal option. It raises the risk of API throttling, which, in turn, leads to migration downtime and user impact.

The best approach is to segregate the total number of users to migrate into several equal batches. This way, you can migrate every user batch seamlessly, without any downtime or security issues.     

Validate Extensively with Migration Reports

Lastly, proper validation should be a part of the migration strategy of every business, regardless of migration size, use case, and complexity. Use migration reports (that the tool generates) to validate each metric of migration, such as the number of users and file/folders migrated, the start and end dates and time, number of hyperlinks migrated, any conflict status, etc.

Choose the Right Migration Partner

All in all, it’s essential to work with the right migration partner when planning to move away from Dropbox and adopt a new cloud platform. CloudFuze is one of the most reliable and result-oriented cloud migration solution providers for secure Dropbox migrations. Contact them today for a free demo of their advanced migration solution.