Any way to Improve Speed/ Avoid time Outs?

[Zachary DiFonzo]

I have two domains and I need to copy the data from User's MyDrive in Domain A into Domain B. Users have an account in Domain A and B - these are separate GWS tenants.

Domain A is the source

Domain B is the destination

Here is the way I am executing this (each bullet is its own GAM command)

1. Create a Shared Drive In Domain B (The destination) 
2. Add the user's acct from Domain A and Domain B as Manager to the Shared Drive
3. Copy data from Domain A Acct's MyDrive to the Domain B owned Shared Drive

The good news, this works, no major errors
However, with some of the MyDrives that have a lot of data , its moving dog slow or its timing out. 

My question:  is there a more effective way to copy the files between the domains? I have about 120 users I need to run this against, and about 20 have more than 50GB of files. Could it be hitting API limits? Again I have no errors 

Here are my commands.

Command 1 - Create Drive and Assign Internal User

gam redirect csv ./SharedDrivesCreated.csv multiprocess csv SharedDriveNames.csv gam user "~User" create shareddrive "~Name" csv addcsvdata primaryEmail "~primaryEmail"

Command 2 - Share Newly Created drive with External User

gam redirect stdout ./SharedDrivesAccess.csv multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv SharedDrivesCreated.csv gam add drivefileacl "~id" user "~primaryEmail" role organizer

Command 3 - Copy User MyDrive content to Dedicated Share  Drive 

gam redirect stdout ./files-copied.csv redirect stderr ./files-error.csv csv ./SharedDrivesCreated.csv gam user "~primaryEmail" copy drivefile root teamdriveparentid "~id" mergewithparent true recursive

[Ross Scroggs]

Send me a private Meet/Zoom invitation, we;'l speed up the copy and you can publish the result.

Ross

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[Ross Scroggs]

Here's a first cut.

Command 3 - Get top level MyDrive items for users

gam redirect csv ./TopLevelMyDriveItems.csv multiprocess redirect stderr - multiprocess  csv ./SharedDrivesCreated.csv gam user "~primaryEmail" print filelist query "'root' in parents" fields id,name,mimetype addcsvdata SharedDriveId "~id"

Command 4 - Copy User MyDrive  content to Dedicated Share  Drive

gam redirect stdout ./files-copied.txt multiprocess redirect stderr ./files-error.txt multiprocess csv ./TopLevelMyDriveItems.csv gam user "~Owner" copy drivefile "~id" teamdriveparentid "~SharedDriveId" recursive

Ross

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Ross Scroggs

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On Dec 5, 2025, at 11:00 AM, 'Zachary DiFonzo' via GAM for Google Workspace <google-ap...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

[Zachary DiFonzo]

Ross

Thanks for the quick response, I have something on your calendar for Monday
Thank you so much 

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[Ross Scroggs]

Monday at 5:30AM (I'm in California) is a little early, 7:30AM is good.

Ross

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