Got Your Back: Gmail Backup

Solved. Reading some older threads here and realized that I had to create a user to go along with my

Hi everyone - I'm sure this is a simple question and so apologies in advance. Essentially I have

Show the exact command you ran and the full error message. Jay Lee On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 3:56 AM

Cool. You are a prince. I will start tiny trial runs tomorrow after coffee. Yes. Old sysadmin here.

Hello Mr. Lee, Thanks for the update. Appreciate it. I do realize that such false positives are quite

Same thing happens for me On Friday, April 26, 2024 at 11:39:47 AM UTC-5 Kevin Herring wrote: I am

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