Moving Google Cloud Storage bucket to another project

Question

What is the best way to move an existing Google Cloud Storage bucket to another project?

I don't want to copy it outside Google Cloud Storage for the transfer, have two copies of the data or use another bucket name.

How close can I get to these requirements?

Answer 1

It's now possible directly from the console UI. Simply head on over to the transfer page

or follow the instructions here.

Answer 2

Moving a bucket from one project to another is not currently possible. The easiest way to copy the data would be to spin up a GCE VM and use gsutil -m. This will at least save the bandwidth cost of moving the data.

Update: there is now a Moving and renaming buckets documentation page.

Answer 3

Another way from the CLI:

Just mentioned the source and target bucket name that may belong to two different or same project:

gsutil mv gs://src_bucket_name gs://dst_bucket_name

I was able to do it easily which google SDK install in local cli.

Note — login user should have proper access to perform the action.

Reference: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil/commands/mv

Answer 4

I wrote a CLI tool that can be used to move buckets from one project to another or rename a bucket in the same project.

Permissions need to be set up correctly to allow the Storage Transfer Service service account from the source project to be able to access/delete buckets in the source project and create buckets in the target project.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/professional-services/tree/master/tools/gcs-bucket-mover

Answer 5

It is reasonably not possible to move the Google Cloud Storage bucket within one project to another project. However, you can copy the data within one bucket to another bucket.