Shared folders from all our offices have been migrated to google drive successfully with very little issues. Thanks to AODocs & their great support…
\nNow I’m looking into moving user files as well.<\/p>\n
We have two drives mapped for all our users, the ‘shared’ drive depending on the business unit they work for, then their user drive for all their ‘not-shared’ files. So nothing is saved on their computers.<\/p>\n
With my first post, what we have done is move the shared drives into a new google drive account and share it from there, with the additional management features from AODocs.<\/p>\n
Now I’m trying to move each user’s personal drive/folder into their respective google accounts.
\nSeems so far the only way is to have google drive installed on their computers (which I really don’t want to do) and have them manually copy the files into google drive.<\/p>\n
Any suggestions?<\/p>\n
Thanks<\/p>","upvoteCount":5,"answerCount":8,"datePublished":"2017-04-04T18:12:49.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"mink","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/mink"},"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"
If the user files have the same structure as they do on gdrive you could try making use of the gdrive CLI client<\/a> (unofficial but works fine; I use it to upload spiceworks backups without having the client on the server). You could easily package it up in a ~500kb script run by powershell run either manually or automated. So the migration from file server to google drive went really well.<\/a><\/p>\n Shared folders from all our offices have been migrated to google drive successfully with very little issues. Thanks to AODocs & their great support… We have two drives mapped for all our users, the ‘shared’ drive depending on the business unit they work for, then their user drive for all their ‘not-shared’ files. So nothing is saved on their computers.<\/p>\n With my first post, what we have done is move the shared drives into a new google drive account and share it from there, with the additional management features from AODocs.<\/p>\n Now I’m trying to move each user’s personal drive/folder into their respective google accounts. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n Thanks<\/p>","upvoteCount":5,"datePublished":"2017-04-04T18:12:49.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/migrating-file-server-to-google-drive-2/571774/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"mink","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/mink"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":" At the moment, they have nothing on Google drive (My Drive). On each file server we have, there is a “Users” folder containing folders for each user by name… If the users ave to do any work, it’s probably best to make a detailed guide on how to upload files using google drive web interface and give them a time frame to complete it… Me thinks…<\/p>\n PS: Just had a thought, I’ll have to see if it would work but I may be able to upload these folders to my account then transfer ownership of folders to each user… Oh… 300 times… think having them do it themselves is looking better P.Pardus,<\/p>\n CloudMigrator can do what you’re looking for. You can have it push up the files in their native formats (word,excel,ppt,etc) or converted to Google formats at upload (Sheets, Docs, Slides, etc). You specify the user’s path to their share and then their email address. With a little scripting you should be able to generate that data for all users.<\/p>\n We provide licensing and configuration for CloudMigrator if you want to PM me.<\/p>\n https://www.thecloudmigrator.com/migration/file/microsoft-file-system-to-google-drive/<\/a><\/p>\n Tony<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2017-04-05T11:18:16.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/migrating-file-server-to-google-drive-2/571774/4","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"tonysheets2418","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/tonysheets2418"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":" Just found this as well<\/p>\n
\nAs an example, this is all that’s required to upload a single folder in sync mode to a gdrive account.<\/p>\n$gdrive = \"$env:userprofile\\documents\\GDrive\"\n$swpath = \"$env:userprofile\\Documents\\Spiceworks Backup\"\n\ncmd /c \"$gdrive\\gdrive-windows-x64.exe\" sync upload $swpath 0B9Ns10rtcRnKaDgwenRQSWZ4dVk\n<\/code><\/pre>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2017-04-04T18:29:30.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/migrating-file-server-to-google-drive-2/571774/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"michaelsc","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/michaelsc"}},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
\nNow I’m looking into moving user files as well.<\/p>\n
\nSeems so far the only way is to have google drive installed on their computers (which I really don’t want to do) and have them manually copy the files into google drive.<\/p>\n
\nIt looks more like something user’s have to perform some of the tasks themselves?<\/p>\n
\nI was ‘hoping’ to find a tool I can run to pick each of these folders and upload to the person’s google drive account it belongs to. About 300 users so I think I’ll be doing a lot of work on my end (matching user name to email address if can’t be detected).<\/p>\n![\":frowning:\"](\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/frowning.png?v=12\" "\\":frowning:\\"")
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