Perform a Dropbox Transfer to Google Drive Without Downtime

To transfer files from one cloud to another without downtime is important for any business as it requires continuous access to important documents and lowers disruption to business operations.

Downtime can affect both business and user, hence, managing downtime is crucial to mitigate the risk of losing data and having misalignment in the timeline. To perform seamless Dropbox transfer to Google Drive, your organization and IT team must have stringent measures in place to handle technical downtime.

This article discusses the best practices to be implemented while performing the Dropbox data transfer to Google Drive migration.

Pre-provision Google Drive User Accounts

Proper pre-provisioning refers to setting up and preparing all the user accounts created in Google Drive before they are redirected for migration. It is one of the fundamental steps to reduce the risk of migration downtime while transferring files from Dropbox to Google Drive.

We recommend ensuring precise mapping of folder paths in Google Drive and the CSV of each user account. Of course, skipping these steps partially or fully might result in significant downtime risks.

A step-by-step transfer files from Dropbox to Google Drive guide to help you with the migration process.

At CloudFuze, our knowledgeable migration team assists companies to design the pre-migration phase when they plan to migrate from Dropbox to Google Workspace.

Segregate Users & Use Phased Approach to Reduce API Throttling

API throttling is an important factor when migrating from one cloud to another as it can result in migration downtime. The risk of throttling increases when there is increase in users and data size. To mitigate this risk, your IT team can divide the total number of users into several batches and migrate them separately, instead of transferring the whole Dropbox data to Google Drive in one go.

At CloudFuze, user batch segregation that emphasizes a phased approach has been one of our exemplary methods to succeed in lowering downtime risks.

With this approach, your IT team, along with our migration team, can comply with the API rate limits set by Dropbox and Google Drive, to reduce the risk of API throttling.

Other best practices to follow to import Dropbox data to Google Drive are as follow –

• Ensuring optimal infrastructure preparedness that is aligned to your project and is advised by your organization.
• Perform a test migration before beginning the actual migration project to identify unpredicted challenges that may result in potential downtime when switching from Dropbox to Google Drive.
• Ensure high-performance servers with the right hardware configuration are utilized to handle the migration process from beginning to end. Poor performing servers may result in increased downtime and impact the migration timeline.

Our experienced and knowledgeable migration team performs sanity testing to ensure that the environment is robust and prepared for detailed testing and supports the migration process. This step allows us to detect any vulnerabilities that can hinder the migration process.

CloudFuze’s built-in feature detects when APIs are likely to throttle and reduce the migration speed, preventing overdriving and throttling.

To learn more about CloudFuze’s capabilities, reach out to us now.