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Step 6: Migrate and monitor your Dropbox migration

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Once you review the tasks (Dropbox folders), confirm the destinations, and correctly map identities, you're ready to migrate.

Important

We strongly recommend that you don't rename or move migrated files before the final migration has been completed. Doing so results in files being overwritten.

  1. Select the tasks (Dropbox folders) to migrate.
  2. Select Migrate.
  3. A confirmation panel displays. Click Migrate.
  4. Once the migration begins, monitor the migration status, and the table summary at the top. Depending on how large your migration, this step may take hours or days.

Note

Starting your migration only copies content from your Dropbox account to the location you have specified in Microsoft 365. Make sure the destinations are correct, as once the migration starts, they cannot be modified.

Download reports

Migration summary report and Migration detailed reports are available to assist you in troubleshooting. Download the generated reports to investigate any possible issues that occurred during the migration.

Check the status code in Migration summary report to address task-level errors. For file-level errors, refer to the failure code (ResultCode) in the Migration detailed report.

After resolving the issues related to warnings or failed tasks, migrate the tasks again to ensure the successful migration of all required files.

Delta sync

When a migration task is conducted for the first time, we call it an initial migration or new migration. After the initial migration, the destination can't be changed. If the task is migrated again, we call it a delta sync. We may also call it an incremental sync, or incremental migration. Learn more about file transfer behaviors in a delta sync.

Migration lanes

At a maximum, only 50 task rows can run simultaneously. This total includes both scanning and migrating. If you select more than that total combined number and start scanning or migrating, only 50 randomly chosen rows are going to run. The rest of the tasks are going to be queued.

As a task row completes, another from the queue starts migrating or scanning automatically. While the maximum number of task rows allowed is set to 50, if a migration experiences any slowdowns or back-off requests, it may drop lower than this number to keep the migration stable.

Schedule a migration

Migration Manager allows you to schedule a migration for one or multiple tasks. This migration is a one-time migration event. When the scheduled time arrives, Migration Manager starts queuing the scheduled tasks. The queued tasks begin migrating immediately if the migration lane limit isn't reached.