Backing up a google workspace account and restoring it to a group

[Jake Yeager]

Hello All! 

I'm new to GYB and I can't really find any walkthroughs or guides on how to do this:

I downloaded an email backup of use...@organization.com.

I now need to restore the backup to a google group called us...@organization.com

Is there someone who might be able to help me achieve this? 

Here are the steps I've taken so far (my responses are in bold):

install with bash <(curl -s -S -L https://git.io/gyb-install)

Can you run a full browser? y

Please enter your email address: use...@organization.com

Enter your verification code: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (place holder for the real verification code)

Click Allow on the prompt in my browser

Enter your verification code: xxxxxxxxxx (place holder for the real verification code)

I followed these steps:

1. Enter "GYB" for "Application name".

2. Leave other fields blank. Click "Save" button.

3. Choose "Desktop app". Enter a desired value for "Name". Click the blue "Create" button.

4. Copy your "client ID" value.

I authorized GYB to backup my email. I'm then presented with the menu.

Then I select  full access and storage quota and groups restore.

I then copy the ID and it authorizes properly and then passes all the scopes.

The last step is to now restore the file to a google group...but idk how to do that. Can someone please help me with that? I would very very much appreciate it! I read a bunch of articles in the wiki telling me I need to make sure its a service account and super admin, but I'm not sure how to do a service account. I attempted to follow the walk through in the wiki but without success. I can make the user a super admin, of course.

Please let me know!

[Ready, Zack]

When you say you downloaded a backup, I'm guessing that was through amethod other than using GYB (since you listed the steps of setting up GYB afterwards)?

I've found you can only do a live backup of a Gmail account using GYB (so it's a .sqlite directory structure, not a single file) and restore that to a group, I haven't been able to do it with a Google Vault (.mbox) or Google Takeout backup. I'm very happy to be corrected by someone else if I'm wrong about that too. Unfortunately it means you can't restore since-disabled accounts (ie .mbox export through Vault, which is what we do) to Groups.

The command I typically use is:

gyb --action restore-group --service-account --use-admin admin-...@domain.org --email email-o...@domain.org --local-folder GYB-GMail-Backup...@domain.org

Where the local folder is as mentioned above, a directory structure created by GYB when it did the backup of the active Gmail account.

I'm sure there's some way to generate the folder/subfolders from an .mbox file which would take care of the issue but I haven't really looked into that yet.

Hope this was some help,

Zack Ready

Sr. Systems Engineer

Cambridge Health Alliance

jre...@challiance.org

(office) 617.665.2081

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[Jay Lee]

Since GYB 1.40 we detect if the restore folder is a traditional GYB backup or if it contains mbox files and we read them appropriately with the restore-group argument.

Jay

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[Ready, Zack]

This is awesome, thanks for the correction!

Zack Ready

Sr. Systems Engineer

Cambridge Health Alliance

jre...@challiance.org

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[Jake Yeager]

That's the same command I use! Both accounts are enabled, its just that one is a group as opposed to an actual email.

This is the message I get when I run the command

I don't think this is right.

Here is the command copied

Users/user/bin/gyb/gyb --action restore-group  --use-admin xx...@organization.com --email xx...@organization.com --local-folder /Users/user/bin/gyb

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[Jay Lee]

"Groups supports restore of messages up to..." is meant to be an informative message, it is not an error.

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[Jake Yeager]

When I get that message I go to the google groups archive and none of the messages are posted. 

I did just find that there is another folder that actually contains the emails in my local folder. When I attempt to run the command again using that folder, it starts to upload them but says this

I copied the client secrets as well as the oauth jason files.

Seriously, I appreciate you both so very much for taking the time to assist!!

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[Jay Lee]

Is the user you are specifying with --use-admin a Workspace super admin?

Jay Lee

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[Jake Yeager]

I just changed them to a super admin. 

I'm getting a bit further now, it says this

/Users/userbin/gyb/gyb --action restore-group  --use-admin xx...@organization.com --email yy...@organization.com --local-folder /Users/user/GYB-GMail-...@organization.com

Using backup folder /Users/user/GYB-GMail-...@organization.com

Groups supports restore of messages up to 26214400

Is this the correct response? I was seeing the Restoring Messages prompts before I made them a super admin

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[Jerry Wang]

If you are backing up Google Workspace data as a domain admin,  take a look at  CubeBackup.

[Joe Kong]

Did you manage to get the restore to work?  I get the same message, but when I check the groups, none of the emails have been imported.

Thanks for any tips!