Workspace to Workspace migration

[adamharp84]

I am the sole IT department for my company. We have recently split into 2 entities and as a part of that process I have been tasked with migrating all of our Google content from 1 workspace account to another one.

This is more of an idea than a question that came with some of the frustrations I have faced migrating our data. I like the data migration tool, but I do not like that it only migrates email content. In the future I feel like this needs to be expanded to include content from Google Drive, Calendar and any other service controlled by your Google Admin console.

Thus far after downloading Google Drive content manually from several users I am running into an issue with verification. As mentioned I am the sole IT person in this company and we have roughly 100 users to migrate.

I've gotten to the point where it will no longer accept my phone number as a means of verification and your support has shown me how to go into each account, turn off 2 step authentication and login challenges, but I find this to be a ridiculously time wasting course of action. I get wanting to be secure, but as the admin and owner of n account either I need to be able to verify myself once and be able to access all users, or as I previously mentioned the data migration tool needs to be expanded to include ALL GOOGLE SERVICES.

I realize this is difficult from a developer standpoint and there isn't some magic switch you can flip to make this happen, but you need to work towards that, especially with you doubling monthly costs on accounts with over 300 users. I foresee lots of instances where companies create multiple Workspace accounts to get around this, and end up needing data migrated.

Or like in my companies case, where we legit split into 2 companies. There has to be a way to simplify this process.

Not to mention when I uploaded a few accounts worth of data I began noticing duplicates because of the way you zip multiple files before downloading them. This whole migration process has quickly turned from doable into a full fledged nightmare.

[KAM]

@adamharp84 , take a look at https://support.google.com/workspacemigrate/answer/9222862?hl=en and see if that helps.  Migrations are a pain and typically require a lot of planning.  At my $dayjob, we use a lot of tooling and expertise to make a migration work.  If you are interested in a bid on the project let me know but hopefully the beta tool will ease some of your pain. -KAM

[adamharp84]

Thanks for the reply KAM. This doesn't really help with the steps I am attempting but I appreciate the info.

I've just had a lengthy chat session with Google support and was told that at this point my only option is to use another phone number to continue verifying account so that I can get their Google Drive content uploaded again. This is a ridiculous notion to me as I do not have 10 phones laying around that I can swap between once the other have verified too many accounts.

I'm coming upon a deadline that I will miss at this point. We are doing the migration to save money and I will not get any approval to hear your bid, but even if that were approved the nature of our separation from the other company we were once part of needs to be completed by next Wednesday at the latest or we will end up losing data that we need for legal purposes.

Apparently the users I created on the to domain were created too rapidly so it was flagged by Google as suspicious. They really need to fix this.

[KAM]

Sorry you are having problems. Many places like schools have discovered you can't use one number over and over for multifactor.

Can you generate backup codes for all the accounts and use those instead?

To meet the deadline, as each of the users, go to takeout.google.com and generate the data dumps so you have them. Then worry about importing later.

-KAM

[BoI_Admin]

Google Migration Tool is quite limited indeed. I had to go through something similar @adamharp84 and I relied on 3rd party providers like Movebot.io and CloudM. Very efficient and worth the investment.

[radnaksi]

@adamharp84Have you found any third party s/w or did you end up doing manually?

[adamharp84]

I just ended up doing everything manually while trying to explain to my non-tech savvy bosses the time constraint was not reasonable for something like this. They still didn't understand and it took a few days longer than they would've liked, but I got it done.

[Iva]

You can migrate Google WorkSpace to another workspace using Gs Richcopy360 or CloudFuze, both can work to migrate directly and without any headache and in schedual if you need