How To Perform Incremental Migration Of Content Using Sharegate Tool

Introduction

In this article, we will explore how to perform an incremental migration of content to the same or higher version of SharePoint using Sharegate tool.

Scenario

In a migration project, especially on SharePoint, customers ask to perform an incremental content migration from the older SharePoint version to the same or a higher SharePoint version.

There are two cases here,

1. Migrate content of specific period with a filter on the created date and modified date column.
2. Migrate content which is newly added to the system (i.e. filter only on created date) of a specific period.

This article explains the step by step approach to performing this activity by using SharePoint third-party tools.

Prerequisites

Sharegate tool should be installed on your machine.

Approach 1 - Migrate content of a specific period with filter on the created date and modified date column

Step 1

Open Sharegate tool on your machine.

Step 2

Select the "Copy Content" option as we want to migrate the content only.

Step 3

Connect to the source SharePoint site.

Note - It will ask to enter the credentials to connect to the source site.

Recommendation - Please use the user credentials having site collection administrator access.

Step 4

Select the list/library on which you want to perform this incremental migration.

Step 5

Connect to the destination site.

Step 6

Click on the "Options" button as shown in the below snapshot.

Step 7

Select ‘Filter Options’.