How Can IT Teams Automate Repetitive Tasks in Cloud Migration?
In almost all cloud data migration projects, there are a lot of repetitive IT-related tasks that can be automated and make the data transfer process more efficient.
In this article, we have listed all the repetitive IT tasks of cloud migration and how our cloud migration solution, CloudFuze Migrate, helps automate them.
Key Takeaways:
Automation of File and Folder Restriction Resolution
One of the most common challenges of migrating to cloud suites like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace is restrictions on file and folder names, length, and special characters usages.
Making changes to the file and folder names, path length, and special characters usages manually is highly cumbersome.
Our migration tool helps automate this repetitive IT task. It identifies files and folders with unsupported names, path length, and special characters, and resolves them as per the allowed limit in the destination cloud.
For example, OneDrive in Microsoft 65 do not support these special characters in file and folder names:
So, when migrating to Microsoft 365, CloudFuze Migrate automatically identifies these unsupported special characters and replaces them with either – or _. This way, IT teams do not have to manually replace the special characters.
Automation of Address Updates in Embedded Links
When migrating embedded links, updating the folder locations of the files is extremely important. Since doing this manually takes a lot of time, it is best to automate it.
As part of offering unmatched cloud migration automation, we have developed our hyperlinks migration tool, Hyperlink Fixer, to automate all hyperlinks migration tasks, Check the details in the table below:
| Hyperlinks Migration Tasks | Automation from CloudFuze |
|---|---|
| Identification of hyperlinks in all the files in the source cloud. | Fully automated via CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer. |
| Fixing links in the source stream (replacement of links in source stream and uploading source stream in the destination cloud). | Fully automated via CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer. |
| Hyperlinks migration report generation. | Fully automated via CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer. |
Automation of Migration Report Generation and Distribution
Although migration reports are crucial for validating migration of all user batches and data, generating and sending them to all stakeholders can be time consuming for IT teams. Our migration tool fully automates this process.
You can simply add the recipients’ email IDs to our tool’s notification section. Our tool will automatically send the migration reports after generating them for every user batch migration completion.
Automation of Retrying Files and Folders Gone into Conflict
In some cases, a few files and folders can go into conflict during migration for several minor reasons, such as:
- Daily upload limitations of the destination cloud
- API rate limiting at the source or destination cloud
Manually retrying to migrate these files and folders can be highly time consuming for IT teams. The best solution to streamline this process is to automate it with our migration tool’s auto-retry function.
Automation of Suppressing Email Notifications
Every time a folder or a file gets migrated to the destination cloud, users get notified in the email. At scale, users get bombarded with email notifications which can become a nuisance and even affect productivity.
And disabling the emails for each individual user can be time taking for the IT team, especially if there are thousands of users to migrate. CloudFuze Migrate automates this with the email notification suppression functionality.
Turn on the options to suppress internal and external emails in the migration job options stage of our migration tool as shown below:
Automate Your Cloud Migration with CloudFuze
Leverage our tool’s advanced cloud migration automation features to streamline your company’s entire migration journey. Our tool’s automation features eliminates the need to manual intervention and saves you significant IT man hours.
Contact us to discuss more about the deep migration automation features of our tool and how they can help you make your migration efficient.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What are the main components of cloud migration automation?
Eliminating repetitive IT tasks, such as performing bulk resolutions, re-migrating files and folders after conflict, correcting embedded links, etc., are some of the main characteristics of cloud migration automation.
2. What are the pros and cons of using cloud migration automation?
There are many benefits to using cloud migration automation, including improved efficiency in the migration process, less involvement of the IT team in repetitive tasks, and timely completion of the migration project.
3. How can businesses evaluate the success of their cloud migration automation?
Businesses can use several metrics to evaluate the success of their cloud migration automation, including the amount of IT man hours saved, on-time completion of migration, and overall ROI of the migration project.
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