GAM to download a copy of users drive/email.
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Robert Robinson
Nov 22, 2016, 5:38:15 AM11/22/16
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We're looking at a way of archiving users data that have left. Transfer Ownership isn't always necessary and was wondering if it's possible to download the contents of a users drive and emails using GAM. The only other option we have is Google Takeout but this isn't very convenient when you have lots of students leaving at the same time. Would be nice to have a way to automate it.
Bob J
Nov 28, 2016, 2:08:44 PM11/28/16
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I'm just starting to look into look into this as well using GAM with got-your-back. I'm not sure if there's a simpler method available, but I'm starting to research automating the GYB token authorization flow. We've been suspending user accounts when employees depart, so the workflow to download the email is something like:
- Use GAM to un-suspend the user account, reset the password, and generate/pull a 2FA code.
- Authenticate to the gmail account.
- Run GYM, authorize the token in the authenticated session, and then download all the user's email.
Not necessarily the simplest or best method, but should save a significant amount of time for me against the 200+ accounts I'd like to remove from our G Suite account.
Jay Lee
Nov 28, 2016, 2:10:38 PM11/28/16
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It'd be easier to just setup GYB with service accounts:
I realize that wiki article is out of date, it's on my todo list to automate the service account setup for GYB like we've done recently for GAM.
Jay
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Paul K
Apr 6, 2018, 3:44:39 PM4/6/18
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Wow. GYB looks awesome. Does anyone know of a similar tool for Drive? It would be nice to be able to make something like Takeouts generates without needing to reset the user's password. GAM doesn't look very well setup for bulk transfer (which maybe is just because the APIs aren't well setup for that?)
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On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 1:10:38 PM UTC-6, Jay Lee wrote:
It'd be easier to just setup GYB with service accounts:I realize that wiki article is out of date, it's on my todo list to automate the service account setup for GYB like we've done recently for GAM.Jay
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:08 PM Bob J <b...@tune.com> wrote:
I'm just starting to look into look into this as well using GAM with got-your-back. I'm not sure if there's a simpler method available, but I'm starting to research automating the GYB token authorization flow. We've been suspending user accounts when employees depart, so the workflow to download the email is something like:
- Use GAM to un-suspend the user account, reset the password, and generate/pull a 2FA code.
- Authenticate to the gmail account.
- Run GYM, authorize the token in the authenticated session, and then download all the user's email.
Not necessarily the simplest or best method, but should save a significant amount of time for me against the 200+ accounts I'd like to remove from our G Suite account.
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 2:38:15 AM UTC-8, Robert Robinson wrote:We're looking at a way of archiving users data that have left. Transfer Ownership isn't always necessary and was wondering if it's possible to download the contents of a users drive and emails using GAM. The only other option we have is Google Takeout but this isn't very convenient when you have lots of students leaving at the same time. Would be nice to have a way to automate it.--
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Yehuda Y
Jul 16, 2018, 11:04:14 AM7/16/18
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Yes, you can use GAM for this.
Look on this example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-apps-manager/XtM6ZwduHJA
Yehuda Y
Jul 17, 2018, 2:44:23 AM7/17/18
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Sorry, this is the correct link
https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/GoogleDriveManagement#examples-3
On Monday, 16 July 2018 18:04:14 UTC+3, Yehuda Y wrote:
> Yes, you can use GAM for this.
> Look on this example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-apps-manager/XtM6ZwduHJA
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> On Friday, 6 April 2018 22:44:39 UTC+3, Paul K wrote:
> Wow. GYB looks awesome. Does anyone know of a similar tool for Drive? It would be nice to be able to make something like Takeouts generates without needing to reset the user's password. GAM doesn't look very well setup for bulk transfer (which maybe is just because the APIs aren't well setup for that?)
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> Paul
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> On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 1:10:38 PM UTC-6, Jay Lee wrote:
> It'd be easier to just setup GYB with service accounts:
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> https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki#google-apps-for-work-and-edu-admins-backup-restore-and-estimate-users-and-restore-to-groups
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> I realize that wiki article is out of date, it's on my todo list to automate the service account setup for GYB like we've done recently for GAM.
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> Jay
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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:08 PM Bob J <b...@tune.com> wrote:
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> I'm just starting to look into look into this as well using GAM with got-your-back. I'm not sure if there's a simpler method available, but I'm starting to research automating the GYB token authorization flow. We've been suspending user accounts when employees depart, so the workflow to download the email is something like:
> Use GAM to un-suspend the user account, reset the password, and generate/pull a 2FA code.Authenticate to the gmail account.Run GYM, authorize the token in the authenticated session, and then download all the user's email.
https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/GoogleDriveManagement#examples-3
On Monday, 16 July 2018 18:04:14 UTC+3, Yehuda Y wrote:
> Yes, you can use GAM for this.
> Look on this example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-apps-manager/XtM6ZwduHJA
>
> On Friday, 6 April 2018 22:44:39 UTC+3, Paul K wrote:
> Wow. GYB looks awesome. Does anyone know of a similar tool for Drive? It would be nice to be able to make something like Takeouts generates without needing to reset the user's password. GAM doesn't look very well setup for bulk transfer (which maybe is just because the APIs aren't well setup for that?)
>
>
> --
> Paul
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> On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 1:10:38 PM UTC-6, Jay Lee wrote:
> It'd be easier to just setup GYB with service accounts:
>
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> https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back/wiki#google-apps-for-work-and-edu-admins-backup-restore-and-estimate-users-and-restore-to-groups
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> I realize that wiki article is out of date, it's on my todo list to automate the service account setup for GYB like we've done recently for GAM.
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> Jay
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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:08 PM Bob J <b...@tune.com> wrote:
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> I'm just starting to look into look into this as well using GAM with got-your-back. I'm not sure if there's a simpler method available, but I'm starting to research automating the GYB token authorization flow. We've been suspending user accounts when employees depart, so the workflow to download the email is something like:
> Not necessarily the simplest or best method, but should save a significant amount of time for me against the 200+ accounts I'd like to remove from our G Suite account.
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> On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 2:38:15 AM UTC-8, Robert Robinson wrote:
> We're looking at a way of archiving users data that have left. Transfer Ownership isn't always necessary and was wondering if it's possible to download the contents of a users drive and emails using GAM. The only other option we have is Google Takeout but this isn't very convenient when you have lots of students leaving at the same time. Would be nice to have a way to automate it.
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> On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 2:38:15 AM UTC-8, Robert Robinson wrote:
> We're looking at a way of archiving users data that have left. Transfer Ownership isn't always necessary and was wondering if it's possible to download the contents of a users drive and emails using GAM. The only other option we have is Google Takeout but this isn't very convenient when you have lots of students leaving at the same time. Would be nice to have a way to automate it.
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Avrohom Eliezer Friedman
Jul 17, 2018, 10:10:33 AM7/17/18
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interesting
So running the command gam ou '/Students/Class of 2018' get drivefile query "'me' in owners" format microsoft on a linux machine will download all the files to /home/aefriedman_ytcteam_org/Downloads/ but it won't make any indication what user it's from. Optimally I would love if it could send to drive each users files into a folder titled by the username
is that at all possible?
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Ross Scroggs
Jul 17, 2018, 11:20:58 AM7/17/18
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Avrohom,
gam ou '/Students/Class of 2018' print users primaryemail | gam csv - gam user ~primaryEmail get drivefile query "'me' in owners" format microsoft targetfolder ~primaryEmail
I can change get drivefile to accept #user# #email# #username# in targetfolder as in other commands.
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Avrohom Eliezer Friedman
Jul 17, 2018, 11:33:14 AM7/17/18
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Awesome!!! Anyway I can send this todrive?
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Ross Scroggs
Jul 17, 2018, 11:41:44 AM7/17/18
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Avrohom,
Send what todrive?
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Avrohom Eliezer Friedman
Jul 17, 2018, 11:50:15 AM7/17/18
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all those files - essentially - I'll have in my gam folder folders with all the usernames and inside is a backup of their drive
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Avrohom Eliezer Friedman
Jul 17, 2018, 4:12:18 PM7/17/18
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FYI -
Ross helped me out privately. The command that is the best for what I'm trying to do is
gam ou '/Students/Class of 2018' transfer drive aefri...@ytcteam.org targetfoldername 'Class of 2018' targetuserfoldername "#email#"
I first need to create a folder in my Drive called
Class of 2018. This puts a folder for each user and puts their docs in the folder
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+KimNilsson
Jul 19, 2018, 10:26:55 AM7/19/18
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Avrohom, so you were looking to get a full copy of the content from all of your students Drive into your own Drive?
No filtering, everything? May I ask for what reason? For the audit of a single user I could understand, but for everyone?
Ross, so the "transfer" command in this case is actually a copy and not really a transfer?
Ross, so the "transfer" command in this case is actually a copy and not really a transfer?
/Kim
Ross Scroggs
Jul 19, 2018, 10:36:14 AM7/19/18
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Kim,
It's basically a move and ownership change combined.
Ross
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+KimNilsson
Jul 19, 2018, 11:10:38 AM7/19/18
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Thanks, Ross, that's what I thought.
Peter Smulders
Jul 20, 2018, 5:29:13 AM7/20/18
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'Transfer' is analog to the option you get when you delete an account (i.e. to move various types of content to a new owner) and is meant for 'everything and the kitchen sink'. If you need a more granular approach (like dividing a disused account's stuff between multiple accounts) you might want to look into the 'drop folder' concept I recently posted about. --peter
Tom Vivian
Sep 17, 2022, 10:35:04 AM9/17/22
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I am new to GAM & GAMADV but have it properly installed as I have been running various commands sucessfully.
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When I try to run
gam user us...@domain.com get drivefile query "'me' in owners" format microsoft
I get the following error message.
Download Failed: Only files with binary content can be downloaded. Use Export with Docs Editors files.
Any help much appreciated.
Thx, Tom.
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Ross Scroggs
Sep 17, 2022, 11:07:27 AM9/17/22
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Tom,
It appears that you are trying to download your entire My Drive structure; GAM is the wrong tool for that purpose.
See: https://rclone.org/
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Peter Andrejko
Jun 30, 2023, 8:39:57 AM6/30/23
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Hello I have a similar problem like Tom Vivian
I'm trying to run a query to download concrete JPG file
Query:
gam user user@domain get drivefile 12xc9SLiWz2HVVqaRTM83dS9PsdnKnyU format microsoft
Result:
User: user@domain , Drive File: 202102021931191001__01.jpg, Download to: XXXX/Downloads/202102021931191001__01.jpg, Download Failed: Only files with binary content can be downloaded. Use Export with Docs Editors files.". Details: "[{'message': 'Only files with binary content can be downloaded. Use Export with Docs Editors files.', 'domain': 'global', 'reason': 'fileNotDownloadable', 'location': 'alt', 'locationType': 'parameter'}]
is there a way to download it with gam ? without rclone
thanks
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Ross Scroggs
Jun 30, 2023, 10:09:14 AM6/30/23
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What does this show:
gam user user@domain show fileinfo 12xc9SLiWz2HVVqaRTM83dS9PsdnKnyU fields name,mimetype
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Peter Andrejko
Jul 3, 2023, 9:44:33 AM7/3/23
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Hello
gam user cheriape show fileinfo 12xc9SLiWz2HVVqaRTM83dS9PsdnKnyU fields name,mimetype
return :
Drive Shortcut: 202102021931191001__01.jpg (12xc9SLiWz2HVVqaRTM83dS9PsdnKnyU)
mimeType: application/vnd.google-apps.shortcut
name: 202102021931191001__01.jpg
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Ross Scroggs
Jul 3, 2023, 11:14:32 AM7/3/23
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Peter,
You' re trying to download a shortcut, do the following to get the id of the actual file.
gam user cheriape show fileinfo 12xc9SLiWz2HVVqaRTM83dS9PsdnKnyU fields name,mimetype,shortcutdetails
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I'm updating the code to follow the shortcut and download the file it points to.
Ross
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Peter Andrejko
Jul 17, 2023, 6:26:45 AM7/17/23
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Thank you very much, its works.
Peter A.
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