How to Take Your Data With You

As this year's Senior class prepares to graduate and move on to bigger and better things, we want to make sure that they can take all their hard work with them to college or work. Most student data is stored in Google Apps for Education in the oregonsd.net domain. If you have documents or files stored on the network server, you can copy it directly to Google Drive.

Students can export their data directly from Google Drive (directions here), or perform an In-App Transfer. For example, a student could move their documents, gmail, calendar items, and websites from student.sample@oregonsd.net  to a new personal account such as mynewaccount@gmail.com, or to their new university email address.

We (the OSD IT department) don't own these tools, so we really can't support them, but wanted to let you know they exist. Best wishes to the Seniors!

Especially for seniors- How to take your Google Apps data with you

As this year's Senior class prepares to graduate and move on to bigger and better things, we want to make sure that they can take all their hard work with them to college or work. Most student data is stored in Google Apps for Education in the oregonsd.net domain. If you have documents or files stored on the network server, you can copy it directly to Google Drive.

Students can export their data directly from Google Drive (directions here), but there are also tools to automatically move all the contents of a Google Apps account to another Google account. For example, a student could move their documents, gmail, calendar items, and websites from student.sample@oregonsd.net  to a new personal account such as mynewaccount@gmail.com, or to their new university email address.

One tool to do this is Backupify's Migrator, available at https://www.backupify.com/free-tools/migrator-google-apps

Another is Google Takeout from the Data Liberation Front.

We (the OSD IT department) don't own these tools, so we really can't support them, but wanted to let you know they exist. Best wishes to the Seniors!

MasStore

I'm attending WiscNet's MasStore event at the Pyle Center to discuss "shared large-scale multipurpose IP-accessible storage." It will include a with about fifty other state organizations how we can cooperatively aggregate storage resources to meet our data storage, backup, and recovery needs. This is something that has evolved over the past two years of work with the Critical Data Backup and Recovery working group (CDBR). Now that WiscNet has launched their "Grow Smart" initiative, bandwidth is not the critical limiter it was a year ago. GrowSmart is "unlimited network access at a fixed, multi-year cost."

The storage landscape has changed. Several vendors are going to present possible solutions today, and then the fifty or so attending WiscNet member organizations will ask questions. After the vendors are gone, the members will discuss how we can possibly use their services, and more importantly, each other, to solve our data backup needs.