Got Your Back: Gmail Backup

Nice! Thank you for sharing! On Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 5:53:38 AM UTC-5 Daniel Schnitterbaum

super. I'm running my backup now, will report if I have any issues when it comes to restoring to

Hello, I have a mailbox backup that I need to restore to another user account. I tried the command

Is there a checklist of what to do to uninstall GYB and remove permissions it was granted? - delete

In the source account, I have: Inbox and some labels: test abc test def In the destination account, I

What I normally do is backup to a server then restore to group. My question is if I need to refresh

If you are always using --service-account with GYB then you aren't actually using the

You were 100% right. Fixed that and it's working. Thank you very much Jay! Much appreciated! On

Hi I'm running into an issue getting GYB to install. I run the .msi I get the CMD prompt to enter

I'm trying to restore from 4 MBOX files to a single empty mailbox. I'm only seeing some of

There is a limit to the ability to restore a group. You are unable to restore emails larger than

It would be great if we could back up mailboxes directly to a shared drive path via the shared drive

Did the schema of the msg-db.sqlite change at some point? I swear at some point in the last few years

Thanks Jay--I'll report back if we do take this approach. I appreciate the quick response! Ian --

Hey there! I appreciate the help! Ive been trying to restore a users emails to a group with no luck.

Hello! I'm stuck configuring GYB for the first time via Linux. I get all the way to the "

Show the command you are running and the exact output. Jay On Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 3:40 PM Noah Grafton

Hi I recently ran GYB restoring an mbox backup from a Google Group to a gmail inbox. It completed

An update for anyone coming after: Using GYB to extract messages works much better than using Google

Estou passando pelo mesmo problema, quero migrar e-mails para conta de grupo porém não executa ,

Thanks for pointing this out. I looked into it, it shows the default is 10 but mine always did 1 at a

Hi all, > Will: it showed this: " zsh: command not found: gyb " I see, judging by the

Hey, I was also very confused by the info message: "Groups supports restore of messages up to

The error implies something happened to GYB's connection to Google servers to interrupt the

No, each database is connected to the admin instance of which it was created to the Google Workspace.

Is it possible to configure GYB to use an existing (previously created) Client without creating a new

That was it - thanks so much! On Monday, December 30, 2024 at 10:19:54 AM UTC-5 Jay Lee wrote: You

Since you can't restore the email labels to the Google group, one possible workaround is as

Yes, restore group can detect if the directory is a gyb backup folder it just a folder with mbox

Hi, I used "install GYB quickly" for Linux" - `bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/