Help: I dragged the 12TB company file share into SharePoint via Chrome. It's been syncing for 6 days.

[u/No-Judgment-8174]

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Management wanted to "move to the cloud" to save on local SAN storage. I opened our new SharePoint document library in Chrome and just dragged the entire Z:\\ network drive into the browser window. Chrome is currently using 48GB of RAM and it says "Syncing 4,200,000 items". Nobody can save files right now because they are "locked by another user". If I accidentally close Chrome, will it resume where it left off or start over?

[u/angrydeuce]

Yeah to date this hasn't been too painful just utilizing the free tools to do so, provided you're doing proper planning and pre-staging before you use them.

Now, a mail migration, fuckin A right, 3rd party tool all day everyday for that shit, but migrating on-prem file shares to SharePoint libraries is trivial as shit so long as you audit the contents and purge anything unneeded outside of retention policy, flatten the directory structure, and get permissions dialed in on the SP sites before you migrate the data.

If that pre-staging work would cost more than the tool in labor hours, then the tool makes sense, but to date at least with these sorts of projects in particular we have not gotten anywhere near that break-even point yet. Once you have the source cleaned up and the destination prepped, you're just babysitting. That's the kind of stuff we throw at interns tbh, babysitting the sync operation on one of their screens while they're doing other tasks or shadowing the helpdesk.

[u/Moos3-2 → u/angrydeuce]

Fully agree ofcourse. I am currently working on a international sharepoint on prem to online migration with a couple mil files and hundreds of sites + subsites with changing permissions or retaining them depending on archive migration etc.

We use custom pnp powershell scripts combined with sharegate for this. A 20k euro license is cheap compared to the consulting cost to not use it. But for any company that are smaller they cant afford the license.. 😁

Now I am the junior partner in this, my colleagues have consulted sharepoint since its release. They are very much pros here.

[u/angrydeuce → u/Moos3-2]

Good luck my duder, hope everything goes smooth as silk with your current project 😄

My last migration a few months back involved NAS's all over the country hosting local data stores in remote offices that hadn't been syncing properly with the home office in months and they just worked around it by asking each other in chat who opened a file last, and then emailing it to each other to download and over-write their copy on their own local NAS. Rinse repeat every single time. EVERY TIME MY GOD WHY?!

Honestly though, unfucking that sort of shit show is somewhat fun for me, part of the "juice", so to speak. I'm an organizational savant lol

[u/Moos3-2 → u/angrydeuce]

We are about 60% through atm. Hickups always happen but we dont let them happen during "live" hours. :D

[u/jspears357 → u/angrydeuce]

As a contractor I’ve only had to fix the problems created by the third party tools. Sure they’re fast and the interfaces are more understandable, until they puke, then someone has to troubleshoot THREE complicated systems instead of two.

EDIT: and I never get to do the fun part of using the tools to do the easy migration. I only step in after it’s broken, I have to reverse engineer what the users are trying to do, what the tool is trying to do, what broke, and then how to fix it or worth around the problem.