Restore to Group Issue

[Ron Allison]

I am experiencing a strange issue trying to use GYB to restore to a group.  I have used GYB and GAM for quite some time so I am very familiar with the process.  When I setup GYB with this particular Workspace early last week everything worked correctly and I was able to backup an email account and then restore to a Group.  A few days later I tried another restore to a group and it would not process.  I ran a service account check and it showed all scopes failed for the group.  I ran the service account check against a valid email address and they all passed.  No changes made to anything at this point.

I have since created a new project and run the setup process again for the same Workspace and I have the same issue.  Using a service account all scopes pass for email accounts but fail for group emails.

Any thoughts on what the issue could be?

[Mark Quinn]

I just tried backing up a Group using the same command I've always used gyb --email <email_of_group> --service-account but got an error saying 'unauthorized_client'. I added myself as an owner of the Group and ran it again. Same error.

I then ran  gyb --email <email_of_group> --use-admin <my_email_address> and it worked

[Mark Quinn]

scratch that...it backed up my emails instead! I only discovered it while I was restoring the emails to another Group!

[Jay Lee]

GYB doesn't support backing up groups because Google doesn't support backing up groups via API.

If you need to backup groups your options are Takeout and Vault.

Jay Lee

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[John Voegtlin]

I haven't used GYB for a while, but this is my exact use-case in the past, and I was about to do it again, and wanted to come check all the relevant discussion areas and such to be sure nothing has changed and whether or not I need a new version, etc.

Was this resolved? 

Did you ever get your account backed up and restored to a group?

[Ron Allison]

John,

 

I cannot recall the issue resolution exactly, but I am fairly sure it was user error on my part. I think I had a permission or group access issue with the account I was using. In the end everything worked as expected, if I recall correctly 

Ron Allison

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[John Voegtlin]

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