27GB of Mail in G Suite Legacy Gmail... Best way to transfer to a regular Gmail?

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  • got-your-back

    Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS.

  • GYB downloads are super fast whatever your network can handle, but upload is snail slow. GYB uploads by default 15 msg at a time, but I got this error. Limiting to 10msg fixed it. For 75k 10GB took almost 24hrs.

  • ImapSync

    Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is

  • I've been using imapsync (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync) to transfer multiple 15+gb mailboxes from Legacy Free accounts to standard Gmail accounts. It's been working flawlessly so far. Highly recommended.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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