G-Suite to Dropbox for Business Migration – Movebot

A Team migration through MoveBot is the simplest and quickest way to move a team or organization from one cloud provider to another, for example migrating G-Suite to Dropbox for Business.

For team and business migrations we recommend using Movebot Projects. The team at Movebot highly recommend migrating data at a time when the data won't be edited, deleted or heavily modified as this could cause failures during the migration.

Step 1: Create a Migration

Navigate to the Migration Manager and select Create

Step 2: Configure G Suite

Select your source storage, in this case we are choosing G Suite, follow the instructions here on how to configure G Suite for migration. Click Next Step

Step 3: Configure Dropbox Business

Select your destination storage , in this case we are choosing Dropbox Business, simply login using the OAuth prompt (Link Storage) then click Next Step

Step 4: Select Users, Drives and Folders

Select the source users, shared drives you'd like to migrate across. If nothing is selected, it will move everything

Select the destination location to receive the users and shared drives. You must select a destination folder to move these into. Whether this is a one-one mapping (username@bigcompany -> username@bigcompany) or many-one mapping (marketing drive, sales drive -> business drive)

For advanced user mapping or to migration multiple users, see Movebot Project Manager

Step 5: Configure Settings and Start the Migration

Give the migration a name and alter any settings you wish. Extra worker nodes will improve performance and you can also select the geographical location where your migration runs from if data sovereignty is a concern. When you are happy, Save and Kickoff

Name	A name for the migration
Email Notifications	Get emailed when your migration is completed
Delta Enabled	Only move files that have been modified since the last migration
Scheduled	Select a time to run the migration, or set a daily scheduled migration
Worker Nodes	Improve performance by adding extra Movebots to process your data

Advanced Options - We recommend leaving these as the default

Post Upload Check	When enabled, on completion of the migration we will run through and check that the files made it across. Some providers take time to process the files and having this enabled can make it seem that files have not been transferred and cause the migration to fail.
Filename Sanitization	Some providers such as OneDrive don't allow certain characters in file names, we will make amendments so that all your files make it across.
Doctype Conversion	Google file types such as .gdoc, .gsheet and .gslide aren't readable from other providers, we will automagically convert the files to .docx, .xlsx and .pptx during the migration.
Duplicate Santization	Google Drive allows multiple files and folders with the same name, with this enabled and if there are two or more files with the same name, we only move the most recently updated file.
Worker Threads	We highly recommend not touching this unless you know what you are doing. This is set to the best for your cloud provider by default.

Step 6: Leave it to Movebot

You can now close your browser and continue with other tasks, Movebot will send you an email on completion.

If you need any assistance or have any questions, please send through an email to support@movebot.io - the team is more than happy to help.