How Can Businesses Ensure Data Integrity in Cloud Migration?

When migrating between two cloud platforms, maintaining data integrity is one of the most important areas to focus on. But is it possible and secure? If yes, how can businesses ensure full integrity of data during cloud migration?

In this post, we have shared deep insights into maintaining data integrity when migrating from one cloud platform to another. We have shared several approaches to ensure data integrity, such as preserving metadata, migrating permissions, converting user roles accurately, and more.

Preserving Metadata is Key

One of the most important steps for businesses to ensure data integrity during cloud migration is to preserve metadata of the migrated data. Some of the most important types of metadata to preserve include:

• Timestamps
• Sharing permissions
• Versions
• External shares
• Shared links
• In-line comments

Use an advanced cloud migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate to preserve rich metadata accurately when transferring TBs and PBs of data.

Preservation of Hyperlinks (Embedded Links)

Since hyperlinks (links embedded in files) are critical to the semantic relationships between files and overall user collaboration, your team must prioritize migrating them without breakage. But migrating hyperlinks can become a challenge when there are a lot of files to migrate.

It is best to use a dedicated hyperlink migration tool like CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer. Watch this video on CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer to learn how it migrates hyperlinks without breakage:

Accurate Conversion of User Roles

User roles, especially privileges in files and folders, matter a lot when it comes to ensuring complete data integrity during cloud migration. But retaining user roles is easier said than done. This is mainly because user roles and privileges vary from one cloud platform to another.

For example, when migrating from Box to OneDrive, user roles related permissions migration is a challenge as Box has more types of user roles. To tackle this issue, you can use our migration tool to map and migrate permissions to relevant user roles in OneDrive.

Conversion of Exclusive Files to Destination Cloud-Supported Formats

Ensuring data integrity can be challenging when migrating exclusive types of files, such as Dropbox Paper and Box Notes. Since these file types are not supported in other cloud platforms, it is important to convert them to supported formats during the migration process.

Our migration tool automatically converts Dropbox Paper and Box Notes files to the .docx format that most other clouds support, including Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Cloud Migration Data Integrity Case Study Highlight

At CloudFuze, we ensure complete data integrity for all our cloud migration customers. One such customer is REHAU. When they partnered with us for their migration project, they had over 100,000 files and folders that needed to be migrated to a single folder in SharePoint Online which raised permissions inheritance concerns.

To address this issue, our migration team offered a strategic solution of migrating all the Dropbox sub-folders and the data (nested folders and files) inside them directly to SharePoint Online without creating any primary root folder. Learn more about the case study here.

Maintain Full Data Integrity During Cloud Migration with CloudFuze

Leverage our proven cloud migration solution to ensure complete integrity of your business’s data when migrating across cloud platforms. With our managed migration service, our team handholds you throughout the migration to ensure you do not go wrong in any area.

Let’s discuss more about the approaches to ensure cloud migration data integrity. Contact us today!

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to secure data during cloud migration?

Using a secure cloud migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate and following security protocols like OAuth-based cloud authentication, encryption of data during migration, etc., are the best ways to secure data during cloud migration.

2. Which is the most secure way to migrate cloud data?

The API-based approach is one of the most secure ways to migrate cloud data along with various types of metadata like permissions, timestamps, version history, external shares, and more.

3. How to ensure data integrity in cloud migration?

By following the approaches included in this article, you can ensure complete data integrity when performing cloud migration of any size or complexity.