When a file is “Pending” it has been successfully transferred to Azure Blob Storage and is awaiting transfer to SharePoint Online by Azure it self.*
The time it takes for Azure is dependent on the datacenter workload, typically faster at night time.
SMART Migration works asynchronously and allows you to continue with other tasks including incremental jobs while Azure is doing the transfer to SharePoint Online storage
SMART Migration is keeping track of each file asynchronously and no file is flagged as successfully “Copied/Created” in the Log until Azure has in fact reported back that the file transfer is complete.
In the “File Reporting” module you can see what files have are still pending or if any warning or error has been issued by Azure.
You may see that the files turn up on the destination sites some time before Azure has reported back on the verification of content and properties etc.
You can safely close any Step in the SMART Migration UI. As the monitoring is done in the background. The notification (if enabled) is triggered in the background when all content processing has completed.
- The file transfer status for all jobs can be viewed in the Dashboard.
You can force the transfer to be synchronous on the File Management – Options tab by selecting
Mode: Azure synchronous/wait or Normal (CSOM)
You can run the job in asynchronous mode. Then the job will finished without waiting for Azure to complete the transfer. You can then run other jobs while still getting all results from Azure applied to the job – The results are collected asynchronously by the server in the background. This is much faster when running many transfers in a for-each loop.
Mode: Azure asynchronous