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Copy from Gmail - Incremental

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As you migrate Gmail mailboxes to Microsoft 365, users will likely keep using their old mailboxes until the new environment is ready.

With incremental copy, you can copy over what has changed since your initial migration, so your users do not lose the content created during that time.

How-to

ShareGate Migrate memorizes your Gmail migrations and their mappings to keep track of what items to increment or copy as new.

To run an incremental copy, you must run a new migration with the same mappings as your original migration from the same instance of ShareGate Migrate as your first migration.

Considerations

  • Incremental copy scope: You can run a full incremental migration or copy only a few of your originally copied mailboxes.

  • Domain change: ShareGate Migrate can still recognize your mailboxes after you change your domain.

  • Incomplete or canceled migrations: Incremental migrations work even if the original migration is incomplete or canceled.

  • Renamed mailbox categories and labels: If mailbox categories and labels are renamed at the source after the initial migration, they are not updated during an incremental copy.

  • Category names are not updated. They keep the name they had when they were originally copied.

  • All-day working location calendar events that are edited after the initial migration are copied as an updated duplicate of the original event.

  • Calendar permissions granted to the Organization removed after the initial migration are not removed at the destination.

What is copied or updated with an incremental copy

When performing an incremental copy with Copy from Gmail, ShareGate Migrate will only copy new elements and update existing elements that have been changed since the initial copy.

The following are copied or updated:

  • New emails are copied.

  • Emails are updated if they were changed at the source or destination.

  • Email folders are updated if renamed or moved at the source or destination.

  • Contacts are updated if they were modified at the source or destination.

  • Contact folders are updated if renamed at the source or destination.

  • Category colors are updated if modified at the source or destination.

  • Rules are updated if they were changed at the source or destination.

  • Calendar events are updated if they were changed at the source or destination.

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