Before users select the source folder, the Migration App can perform an initial high-level scan to understand the folder structure on the source. This scan is available via the Agent and can be initiated from either the Migration Dashboard or the Create New Migration dialog.
The feature is currently in limited availability. To request this feature, contact our Products team.
To initiate a scan of a connected Agent from the Migration Dashboard, under the three-dots menu, select Scan Source.
Alternately, the users can click on Scan Source in the create new migration dialog.
The user will be offered a dialog box displaying all the mapped drives connected to the host where the agent is installed. Select one or all available drives and click Scan.
While the scan is in progress, it displays the status on the Agent details page as Running.
Once the scan has finished, the completion time is displayed on the Agent details page as Source Last Scanned.
On the Create New Migration Job dialog, the user can hover over the information icon and see when the source was last scanned.
Clicking Scan Source from this dialog brings up details about all disks on the source, and allows the user to rescan, or to initiate a scan if none had previously been run on any of the available disks.
Once a scan has been completed, the user can continue to fill in the details for source and destination to create a new migration job.
The maximum number of folders the Source Scan can accommodate is 500K. If the source contains more than 500K folders, the Source Scan will fail, and an error message will be displayed. In such a case, the user must manually enter the Source Folder Path.