Migration Validation Report
View content reconciliation between the source and destination and run a content inspection.
Written by Andrea Harvey
Updated at July 21st, 2025
Table of Contents
Overview
The Validation report allows you to run a content inspection and to view the content reconciliation that has occurred between the source and destination.
Connection Access
If the connection does not have access to a given folder in the hierarchy, DryvIQ cannot track and report these items.
Content Inspection
DryvIQ allows you to control the level of tracking and reporting for content that exists on both the source and destination platforms through the Item Inspection policy. This includes content that has been configured to be excluded from transfer and content that existed on the destination before the initial transfer. The Item Inspection policy is set when creating the job as part of the job behaviors configuration.
At any time, you can run a job to perform validation on filtered and/or shared items. This will trigger a full inspection of the selected content for the next run only. If filtered and shared items are already being inspected for the job, these options will be disabled.
Content Reconciliation
The content reconciliation provides a comparison of the reconciled items between the source and destination. It can help track the success of the migration. By default, it displays the counts for files and folders, but you can choose to view only files, only folders, or data. The items reported in this section vary depending on the policies and filters set for the job, as well as the events that occurred during the job run.
Ignored Categories
Below is a list of the possible ignored reason categories. These categories are also available as filters in the Jobs grid. Select to filter by status “Ignored,” and select the subcategory to use.
| Reason | Description |
|---|---|
| Content extension | Ignored due to a third-party extension |
| Date | Ignored due to date range filter |
| Destination only items | Ignored on the destination |
| Empty container policy | Ignored due to empty container policy |
| File extension | Ignored due to file extension filter |
| Hidden | Ignored due to hidden file/folder filter |
| Item type | Ignored due to file type filter |
| Large item policy | Ignored due to large item policy i.e. file too large to be transferred to destination platform |
| Match fail | Ignored due to error in calculating a destination path |
| Metadata | Ignored due to metadata filter |
| One way transfer | For a one-way transfer, destination-only items that were not transferred to the source |
| Overwrite policy | Ignored due to overwrite policy |
| Path | Ignored due to path filter |
| Pattern | Ignored due to item name pattern filter |
| Predefined | Ignored due to a predefined content categories filter |
| Restricted content policy | Ignored due to restricted content policy |
| Shared | Ignored due to shared item filter |
| Size | Ignored due to file size filter |
| Unknown filter reason | Unknown reason, includes items ignored by previous DryvIQ versions on upgraded installations |