Planning your company’s Egnyte to Google Shared Drives migration? Use this migration guide as a repository for insights to strategize the user and data transfer process. We have covered all critical aspects of the migration to ensure you do not go wrong in any area:
1. Introduction
Planning an Egnyte to Google Shared Drives migration for your company’s use case can be challenging, whether it is choosing users and data to migrate or performing security and performance pre-assessments. But with the right approach, your team can be on the right track for progress.
The migration partner you choose to work with also plays an integral role in shaping the migration’s outcome. At CloudFuze, we have helped a lot of companies migrate from Egnyte to Google Shared Drives successfully. And we have shared all our approaches in this guide that have created migration success stories for all our business customers.
Before checking out our best practices and migration steps, you can watch this video for a quick walkthrough of the migration process in our tool:
Watch the video below to learn how to transfer files from Egnyte to Google Shared Drive account by following simple steps.
2. Egnyte to Google Shared Drive Migration Trends & Use Cases
Businesses that plan to migrate from Egnyte to Google Shared Drives often have the end-goal of consolidating into the Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) cloud suite. However, there are also a lot of other use cases that create the need for businesses of all sizes to migrate their users and data, including:
- Mergers
- Acquisitions
- Organizational restructuring
- Cost savings
- Security reinforcements
- Data governance
3. Egnyte to Google Shared Drive Migration Challenges
When migrating the data from Egnyte to Google Shared Drive, it is important to not just migrate folders and files, but all the permissions, versions, and timestamps associated with them which is vital for your business to maintain. Moreover, Google Shared Drive has certain limitations that limit your data migration from Egnyte.
- Only accepts 750 GB of data per user per day
- Supports up to 20 levels of nested folders and beyond that can’t be migrated
- Permission levels are completely different compared to Egnyte
All of these factors combined together create challenges for IT Admins to transfer files from Egnyte to Google Shared Drive.
5. Choosing the Right Solution for Your Migration Project
There are not many migration tools available that support Egnyte to Google Shared Drive migration. Being a Google Technology Partner, CloudFuze has There are not many migration tools available that support Egnyte to Google Shared Drive migration. Being a Google Technology Partner, we at CloudFuze have the most experience in helping businesses across the globe to migrate Egnyte to Google Shared Drive successfully.
Our dedicated migration team can help you transfer Egnyte to Google Shared Drive without compromising on data and its features and your day-to-day business priorities
CloudFuze also assures that your Egnyte to Google Shared Drive migration is safe and secure without any data breaches.
9. How to Migrate Egnyte to Google Shared Drive
A CloudFuze account is needed for migration.You can sign up for an account. Besides, we can also provide a custom enterprise trial upon request.
Step 1: Create a CloudFuze Account
You can sign up for an account. Besides, we can also provide a custom enterprise trial upon request
Step 2: Add Egnyte Account
Locate the Egnyte cloud listed under the business clouds. Click on it.
Step 3: Authorize Your Company’s Egnyte Account
Upon clicking the Egnyte cloud, a popup will appear where you need to enter your Egnyte’s login/access details. Once entered, click on the Allow Access button to complete the cloud-adding process.
Step 4: Add Google Shared Drive Account
Now, search for the Google Shared Drive cloud and click on it. Then, enter the admin login credentials of your G Suite account. Please note that Shared Drives will not have separate login information.
Step 5: Authorize Shared Drive/GSuite Account
Click on the allow the button to complete the cloud-adding process.
Step 6: Verify the Cloud-Adding Process
Click on the Clouds icon in the left menu bar. Go to the Manage Clouds tab to check whether Egnyte and Shared Drive accounts are added there. If successfully authorized, both clouds should appear there.
Step 7: Initiate the Egnyte to Google Shared Drives Migration
Click on the Team Migration icon to transfer files from Egnyte to Google Shared Drive. Please keep in mind that you need to configure a few things before the actual migration begins. Therefore, clicking on the Team Migration button doesn’t start the migration right away.
Step 8: Select the Source and Destination Clouds
Select Egnyte as the source and Google Shared Drive account as the destination.
Step 9: Map the Users on a CSV File
Map the source cloud user accounts to the destination cloud on a CSV file. Note that CloudFuze’s migration team takes care of much of this work in a managed migration scenario. If you would like to see how the CSV works in real-time, request a demo.
Step 10: Validate the CSV File
Upload the CSV file and select the file and click on the Next button. If CSV format is correct, our tool will validate it and prepares users for migration.
Step 11: Choose Your Preferences
Give the migration job a name so you can remember it easily. Enter any additional email address that you wish to receive notifications besides the one email that used to create the account.
Step 12: Select Migration Options
Select job options, job type, and then click on the Start Migration button. Ideally, you would select the Job Type as a one-time.
Step 13: Egnyte to Google Shared Drives Migration Is in Progress
This status indicates that the migration is currently in progress. Our dedicated migration teams send daily in-depth details about the progress of migration via email for business users.
Step 14: Egnyte to Google Shared Drives Migration Has Been Completed
Once the status appears Processed, it means that the migration has been completed successfully. We provide detailed migration reports so you can assess and check the accuracy of the migration.
We provide a dedicated migration and technical support team for business users. In an ideal managed migration case scenario, much of the work will be handled by our team, providing IT managers and admins peace of mind.
CloudFuze provides a dedicated migration and technical support team for business users. In an ideal managed migration case scenario, much of the work will be handled by the CloudFuze’s team, providing IT managers and admins peace of mind.
