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Can I increase the speed of migration?

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In general, please note that the speed of migration depends on the following factors.

  1. Time taken by the SharePoint servers at the source and destination to service a request

If there is any delay in a response from the source or target servers, this will impact the speed of the migration. Some of the reasons for the slow response are

  • Large number of users using source and target SharePoint farms.
  • Large number of migration sessions on a single farm
  • Problems with the load balancing server.
  1. Network speed

Network speed plays a very big role in data transmission from source to target. Poor network connectivity will adversely affect the speed of data migration. For better performance , 50 MBPS network speed is recommended

  1. Insufficient memory in the machine, where the Saketa Migrator is being run

The recommended memory size is 16GB for better performance.

  1. Type of SharePoint objects and data we are migrating

The speed of the migration for SharePoint objects and file streams is not same. Migrating SharePoint objects ( like content types, site columns, lists, libraries, managed metadata, workflows etc.) to a target site takes more time than migrating file streams.

Example:

This point is best illustrated with an example. Migrating 20 site content types, with each content type containing more than 30 site columns (the storage size of 20 content types in content DB is approximately 100Kb) takes approximately 10 minutes, but to migrate 1GB single file take only 8 minutes.

Similarly, a migration involving a large number of list items will take longer than migrating large volume of file streams.  

Saketa SharePoint Migrator operates in two-speed modes: Normal and Turbo. You can substantially increase the speed of migration using the Turbo Mode, provided you have a verified Azure account.

Normal Mode: All migrations are in the normal mode by default. The speed in this mode is highly dependent on the speed of the internet.

Turbo Mode: Turbo Mode will be enabled only when the destination site is SharePoint online and the user has a verified Microsoft Azure account. All the data will be transferred into the Azure account and then migrated to the destination site.