Overcome API Limitations When Moving from Box to OneDrive

When moving from Box to OneDrive, adhering to API restrictions is crucial to avoiding throttling, which, otherwise, can cause significant downtime. Read this post to learn how to manage API limitations while ensuring your migration is fast, smooth, and secure.

Key Takeaways:

  • The first step to overcoming API limitation-related issues is to understand the rate limits of Box and OneDrive APIs.
  • It’s important to adhere to API rate limits to avoid exceeding them, which, otherwise, can cause migration downtime.
  • Migrating in batches is one of the best ways to adhere to API rate limits and avoid API throttling issues.
  • It’s also important to ensure you have sufficient API calls for the migration to avoid disruption and downtime problems in later stages.

Understanding Box and OneDrive API Rate Limits

Strategizing any Box to Microsoft 365 migration around API limitations involves understanding the API rate limits. Both Box and OneDrive (Microsoft 365) have certain API rate limits that you need to be aware of:

  • Box API rate limits: 1,000 API calls per minute
  • OneDrive Microsoft Graph API rate limits: 130,000 requests per ten seconds

Why Adhere to API Rate Limits?

If you do not adhere to Box and OneDrive API rate limits and exceed them, API throttling will be introduced with a “429 Too Many Request” status code which will halt API calls/requests. As a result, the migration process gets paused and causes downtime.

And as you would know, downtime in migration (especially large-scale migrations) causes the entire project to get delayed. Time-sensitive migrations that require on-time completion are especially at risk of disruptions.

Strategies to Adhere to Box and OneDrive API Rate Limits with CloudFuze

To avoid API throttling risks, we at CloudFuze, can help you with several strategies that have worked for all our past customers. Explore them below:

1. User Batching

One of the best approaches to adhere to API rate limits is to migrate in batches. It involves segregating the total number of users into several equal batches and migrating them one at a time. With this approach, you can keep API usages in check and avoid exceeding the allowed limits.

Migration batches

Here’s a simple example to help you understand this approach better:

  • Let’s assume you have 3000 users to migrate
  • Divide the total 3000 users into 3 batches
  • In each batch, you will have 1000 users

After creating user batches, you can follow this migration sequence:

One-Time Migration Validation Delta Migration Validation
Batch 1’s one-time migration Batch 1’s one-time migration validation Batch 1’s delta migration Batch 1’s delta migration validation
Batch 2’s one-time migration Batch 2’s one-time migration validation Batch 2’s delta migration Batch 2’s delta migration validation
Batch 3’s one-time migration Batch 3’s one-time migration validation Batch 3’s delta migration Batch 3’s delta migration validation

2. Ensuring Sufficient Availability of API Calls

Another important approach is to ensure ample availability of API calls (on both Box and OneDrive) for the migration. Depending on the number of users and size of data you want to migrate, you must have sufficient API calls to ensure the transfer process goes smooth.

Availability of API calls depends on the Box and Microsoft 365 licenses you are on. We recommend checking the available API calls before proceeding with the migration; our team can help with this.

Get in touch with us to learn more about managing API limitations for your company’s Box to OneDrive migration.

Overcome API Limitations When Moving from Box to OneDrive with CloudFuze

With CloudFuze as your migration partner, you can avoid API limitation-related challenges and ensure a smooth migration. Our tool also maintains enterprise-grade security to ensure your sensitive business data does not get compromised.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the role of APIs in cloud migration?

APIs enable cloud migration by serving as the gateway to read and write processes. It’s important to have sufficient API calls on both the source and destination clouds to ensure downtime-free migration.

2. How to solve API throttling when moving from Box to OneDrive?

If you are already facing API throttling issues, the best option is to wait for the next call window to start. The wait time varies from APIs of one cloud provider to another.

3. What is the best way to avoid API throttling during cloud migration?

Migrating in batches is one of the best ways to avoid API throttling as it ensures usage of API calls within the permitted limits. Batch-based migration also simplifies the process of monitoring and validating migration.

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