Migrate Dropbox to SharePoint Online

This article will cover step by step instructions on how to transfer your content, users and team drives from Dropbox to SharePoint Online. If you are looking to move multiple users or an organization we recommend using Movebot's Project Manager

 

 

Step 1: Create a Movebot account

• Navigate here to create a Movebot account (opens a new tab). On successful account creation you will be taken through to your migration dashboard.

 

 

 

 

Step 2: Create a Migration

• On the top right click on  to create your migration.

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Add Dropbox for Business as your source cloud provider 

• Select Dropbox Business (this is required if moving team drives and users, otherwise you can use standard Dropbox) from the list.
• Enter your Administrator Account then click Link Storage you should expect a pop-up to log into your Dropbox using your admin user and allow Movebot (Couchdrop) access to your storage
• Once you have linked your storage, click Next Step

 

 

 

 

 Step 4: Add SharePoint as your destination cloud provider

• Select SharePoint from the list.
• Enter your Full Sharepoint URL (it must include the site name and document library).
  

  For the link Movebot would expect to see either of the following combinations (where XXX is unique to your SharePoint):

  # https://XXX.sharepoint.com/Docs%202
  # https://XXX.sharepoint.com/sites/XXX/Docs
  # https://XXX.sharepoint.com/sites/XXX/Shared%20Documents

• Click Link Storage you should expect a pop-up to log into your SharePoint using your O365 admin user and allow Movebot (Couchdrop) access
• Once you have linked your storage, click Next Step

 

 

 

 

Step 5: Select folders/users to migrate

• Source Folders: Select which folders or users you wish to migrate across, if nothing is checked, everything will be moved by default
• Destination Folder: Select the destination to move your files to, if left blank it will be moved into your storages top level (root directory), when ready click Next Step

In the above image we are looking to migrate both Dropbox users and Team Drives into a folder within SharePoint 

 

 

 

 

Step 6: Provide your migration a name and go

• Add a name to the migration, then when you are ready, 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 7: Sit back, relax and we will email you

• As your migration progresses, you can monitor it at the dashboard. Otherwise we will email you once the job has completed.

 

 

 

Click below to go back to Movebot and Get Started

 

 

 

 

 

 

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