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SharePoint online as File Server
I have a case study for replacing a NAS server of around 3TB of data. At first, I was thinking at Azure Files as a replacement. I would allow us to re-create the file share as it is today.
However, some little birds told me about SP Online. I was wondering : even with a tool, uploading 3TB of data trough Internet doesn't seem like a good idea. Does anyone have any experience with sending Hard Drive to Microsoft so they can do the copy ? After that, we could check any delta with a tool and limit the size of the uploads.
Stephane KLOIS Unfortunately MSFT does not have an option to send hard drives. You can send hard drives to Azure files, but not SPO.
In terms of uploading 3TB to SPO, that is completely achievable. I've worked on projects where the customer moved 100's of TBs into SPO.
You will need a tool for that amount of content. There is the free SP migration tool, but I'd say the tool is best suited for a few hundred GB maximum.
Thanks for the feedback. How did you do to migrate such a large volume of data ? Which tool did you use ?
For the moment, I intend to do as Cian Allner suggested (first clean), and then upload the data slots by slots.
No prob, not sure why I got the "null null" treatment.
I used Cloud FastPath, which is the product I work with. We've moved over 50TB per day for some large projects. In reality, moving the data is not the issue as long as you have the right tool. The planning, analytics, cleanup, and segmentation is the hard thing to do.
Hi There,
I did the following.
3 Sites, Synology NAS in each site
Setup local shared folders and copied data into their respective folders. Then setup "Cloud Sync" on the NAS devices by using the Office365 Admin user. For each folder I created a sync task for bidurectional sync.
With all sites having 100mbps fiber connectivity the upload took about a week in total. After that I opened up external access(Onedrive online)
Regards,
JP
