User drive transfer resulting in a large number of retries. Cancel? Limit retries?

[Justin Cervero]

I kicked off a drive transfer with 7000+ files and 1000+ folders. I'm getting a large number of 404s and 403s. After an hour it's currently on item 114.

1. Is there a way to reduce the number of retries? Can I turn it off or limit it to a single retry?
2. What would be the consequence of aborting the command? I presume anything that has successfully been transferred is fine but what would happen if I then re-attempted the transfer either with GAM or with the Google Admin UI tool? Would the folder hierarchy be impacted at all?

Thanks.

[Ross Scroggs]

Justin,

Send me a Meet/Zoom invitation

Ross

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[Don Beck]

I have a user that has over 31K files in their My Drive that need to be transferred to new owner.  I'd like to hear that answer to this.

[Brian Kim]

I do a print filelist first, then use the CSV to recursively update the permissions, transfer ownership, etc.

[Stephen Bennett]

If you are receiving a large number of 404s and 403s errors when running a drive transfer with GAM, it is likely that the transfer is failing due to rate limiting from the Google Drive API. To reduce the number of retries, you can use the --retry-throttle-secs flag to set a retry throttle. This flag will set a minimum amount of time between retries and will prevent GAM from re-trying the transfer too quickly and hitting the rate limit again.

Aborting the command will stop the transfer process and no further data will be transferred. You can retry the transfer either with GAM or with the Google Admin UI tool, but you should be aware that any files or folders that were already transferred will be duplicated if you do so. It is also possible that the folder hierarchy may be impacted if some of the files or folders were not transferred correctly.