Egnyte gives your users the freedom to access their files from anywhere, making them more productive, so it’s important to get your files in Egnyte as quickly as possible. This guide will help you make a more informed decision about the tools you can use to migrate to Egnyte. The method you use to migrate your data, users, and permissions depending on the amount of data you are transferring, where it's stored, available bandwidth, etc. Remember, users can add files and folders they have stored on their local machines, too. Point them to the article, A User's Guide to Adding Content to Egnyte.
Customer Guide to Choosing a Migration Method
Skip ahead to...
On-Prem to Egnyte Migration
Egnyte-to-Egnyte Data Migration
GDrive/Box/Dropbox to Egnyte Migration
On-Prem to Egnyte
Migration Tool Options | Limitations | |
3rd party Migration Tool, such as Tervela |
A large number of regional offices for migration (>20 offices) Wants an aggregated dashboard, real-time stats in the cloud. Wants a self-service tool or Additional costs involved for Tervela or Professional Services engagement |
Recommend job sizes below 2-4 TB, 2M objects. Multiple jobs can run concurrently. |
Cloud Migration Manager Agent |
Requires Professional Services contract IT staff proficient with command-line tools Optionally want to migrate permissions Wants to migrate data where source changes and true-ups are required |
5 million objects per migration job 500 MB RAM per migration job |
Cloud Migration Manager Virtual Machine |
Optionally want to migrate permissions and Wants to migrate data where the source does not change (no true-ups) and Requires virtualization environment |
1 TB max, 1M objects per job |
SyncBack Pro (3rd party tool) |
Customer needs to move data and true-ups and Does not need to migrate permissions. Wants to self-serve (will have a user interface to monitor and manage migration) |
Recommended job sizes below 2 TB, 1M objects. |
Storage Sync |
Is going to deploy Storage Sync for hybrid collaboration and Is willing to copy data from the source to Storage Sync with SyncBack Pro Requires virtualized infrastructure and storage for staging the migration and Does not need to migrate permissions Does not require migration logs or reports |
10 Million objects per Storage Sync device |
Egnyte-to-Egnyte
Migration Tool Options | Limitations | |
Tervela (3rd party tool) |
Large migration projects and the source may be changing and May need permission migration from the source domain Involves additional costs |
Projects > 5 TB Professional Services recommended |
Content Lifecycle Archival Policy |
Large migration projects and the source may be changing and May need permission migration from the source domain Involves additional costs Projects > 5 TB Professional Services recommended Content Lifecycle Archival PolicyIt is an archive migration and Retention Archival Deletion (RAD) package enabled and Exact migration source folder paths for archival is defined |
Lifecycle policies need to be defined through the dashboard |
Egnyte Cloud Copy |
Requires Professional Services contract and Used for small projects |
Projects < 5 TB |
For other Egnyte-to-Egnyte migration use-cases not covered above, contact Professional Services |
|
3rd-Party Cloud to Egnyte
Migration Tool Options | Limitations | |
Tervela (3rd party tool) |
Requires Professional Services contract or Direct contract with Tervela or other 3rd party vendors |
When to Consider Egnyte Professional Services
If you need help migrating to Egnyte, our professional services team can help. Egnyte Professional Services are especially helpful when you’re:
- Migrating a large amount of data
- Migrating from another cloud provider
- Have multiple office locations
- Have limited internal resources to help with the project
- Egnyte supports relative links, but when migrating to Egnyte, things can get tricky. Talk to our PS team to find the best solution for migration
- For other migration services not covered above
Reach out to your Account Manager today so we can begin customizing your roadmap to success. If you are not sure of your Account Manager please send an email to customerservice@egnyte.com and someone will get back to you.