Migrate email from a Google Workspace account

1. Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.

2. Go to Menu  Data > Data import & export > Data Migration (New).
3. For Google Workspace emails, click Migrate.
4. Click Source super admin email address, and enter the email address of a super administrator on the source account (the account where you are migrating from).

   Important: Only the admin you specify in this field can authorize the process.

5. Click Request authorization.

   An authorization request is sent in an email to the super admin specified in step 5. The request expires in 24 hours. If the request expires and you want to resend it, click Resend request. You must wait 24 hours after you send a request before you can resend it.

Next steps

To proceed, the super admin of the source account must open the authorization link in the email, sign in to their Admin console and click Authorize. The authorization process also generates a client ID and grants domain-wide delegation for Data Migration (New) in the source account. For more information, go to Control API access with domain-wide delegation.

If you click Verify authorization in the Admin console of the target account, the status changes to Connected.

You use a migration map to connect users on the source account to users on the target account. The new data migration service uses the migration map to transfer email data from the source user to the target user.

1. Create the mapping file

Tip: Click Download a sample CSV to get an example comma-separated values (CSV) file that you can use.

In a spreadsheet program:

• Add the first header, Source GUser (for users' email addresses on the source account), then the second header, Target GUser (for users' email addresses on the target account).
• Using valid email addresses, map the users under the headers (both addresses are mandatory).

  You can't map a single source user to more than one target user. You can download a list of users from your Google Admin console. For details, go to Download a list of users.

• Make sure the file contains no more than 1,000 source users and doesn't exceed 128 MB in size.

  The new data migration service currently supports a maximum of 1,000 users for migrations to Google Workspace.

• Save the spreadsheet as a CSV file.

Example:

Source GUser	Target GUser
user1@example.com	user1@solarmora.com
user2@example.com	user2@solarmora.com

In this example, the source domain is example.com. The target domain is solarmora.com.

2. Upload the file

1. In the Admin console of your target account, click Upload migration map CSV.
2. Go to and select your CSV mapping fileclick Open.
3. Click Tasks to confirm that the mapping file has successfully been uploaded.

   Note: If the CSV file doesn't load successfully, go to the next section, (Optional) 3. Delete a CSV file. If you encounter this issue more than once, contact Google Workspace support.

(Optional) 3. Delete a CSV file

If there is an error during the CSV upload or the upload gets stuck, you can delete the current configuration and upload a new one.

1. Select the CSV file you want to remove.
2. Click Delete .
3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the CSV file.
4. To start a new upload, return to the previous section, 2. Upload the file.

1. Click Start date and enter the date that you want messages migrated from.

   The new data migration service migrates messages from the selected date to the date that you start the migration.

2. (Optional) To migrate email messages that have been deleted by users, check the Migrate deleted emails box.
3. (Optional) To migrate email messages with the Spam label, check the Migrate spam emails box.
4. (Optional) If you don't want to migrate messages that have specific labels, check the Exclude specific labels from migration box, and enter the label names, separated by commas.

   For details, go to How to exclude labels from migration (in the next section).

5. Click Save.

How to exclude labels from migration

• Specify each label or sublabel separately.
• When you add a sublabel, use the full path and separate the parent label from the sublabel with a forward slash (/).

  Example: You want to exclude the label Travel and its child label, Asia. To do so, you enter Travel,Travel/Asia.

• If you add All Mail, the new data migration service doesn’t migrate any email messages.

You must be signed in as a super administrator for this task.

1. Click Start migration.

   This action also grants domain-wide delegation and creates a client ID for Data Migration (New) in the target account. For more information, go to Control API access with domain-wide delegation.

2. The status changes to In progress and the following information is updated in real time:

   • Discovered tasks–Total number of items (messages, labels, and other tasks) that were migrated, skipped, or failed
   • Warning–Number of items that were migrated, but failed to complete as expected
   • Failed–Number of items that failed to migrate, due to an error
   • Skipped–Number of items that were skipped
   • Successful–Number of items that were migrated successfully
   • Users processed–Number of users whose migration has completed
   • Emails discovered–Number of email messages that were migrated, skipped, or failed
   • Emails migrated–Number of email messages that were migrated
   • Emails skipped–Number of email messages that were skipped
3. To export and interpret the reports, go to Understand the new data migration service reports.

To move data that has been added to the source account since the primary migration, start a delta migration. For details, go to Run a delta migration.