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Hello

I’m in a company with about 180 Dropbox accounts with 3 TB of data and we’d like to migrate to Google Drive. Google send me a link with 2 certified companies that can do the migration. I had a look but didn’t get too much impressed. Nava and Cloudsfer.

So my questions are

  1. Do you know a very good tool that knows how to do the migration.

  2. I usually prefer manual migration because I have full control over the whole process even if it is more complex than running a tool that is doing it for you, what do you think?

Thanks

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Not an expert here - But cant you set up Dropbox to sync to a actual folder on the local PCs, then also setup Drive to Source from that exact same local folder? Basically then all the contents of DB would get synced to desktop and then synced to Drive? This is the “manual” way to some degree.

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Thanks for your answer but the problem is not to physically moving files from one cloud to another but if you have thousands of files and folders, with owners who share hundred or thousands of files, how do you keep it that way when it’s moving to Google Drive? There should be a system that knows how to replicate everything keeping exactly the same owners, permissions and shares. Maybe Cloudsfer…checking this one now

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There is a bunch of tools you could use to sync Dropbox to Google Drive such as Rclone, Duplicacy. Is a single cloud enough to secure your backups? 5 cool cross-cloud solutions you should consider - VMWARE BLOG

Also, you might try cloudHQ as it is a GUI based sync tool. IT Admin: How to migrate Dropbox Business to Google Workspace (multiple users) – cloudHQ Support

The issue is that these tools would allow you to replicate data between clouds but not keep permission. This is what I have found so far.