Overview

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Follow these steps to back up email and other Google Suite data from your student Google account onto a personal computer or email account.  

 

Critical Concepts

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• Google Takeout downloads your Google account files onto your personal computer.  Downloading your files onto your desktop will allow you to upload your mailboxes into a personal email client or view your files on your computer.
• Google Transfer lets you transfer your emails and Drive documents to another Google account.  This is a good option if you have a personal Gmail account you would like to use to backup you UCSD Google account content.  
  • Note:  Google Transfer option only support Google to Google migration.

 

Steps to Take

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Google Takeout

1. Sign into the Google Takeout Tool (takeout.google.com) with your full UCSD email address (include @ucsd.edu)
2. Select which data you would like to include in your download and select Next.
   • If you'd like more information on what data will download with each option, you can click to expand information on the section that you'd like to know more about,
3. Verify your options and select Create Archive.

Google Transfer

1. Sign into takeout.google.com/transfer with your full UCSD email address (include @ucsd.edu)
2. Enter your personal Gmail account address that you would like to use as your destination account.  
3. Select Send Code.
4. Enter the code that was sent to your personal Gmail account to verify.
5. Select the data you would like to include in your transfer.  Select Start Transfer.