GATE A
SOURCED
identified at source · requested · ready to pull
18
items here now
~23.1 TB
aggregate size
What this gate means
An item is at SOURCED once we know it exists and where to find it. It hasn't been pulled yet. For cloud accounts this means the export has been requested and is either being prepared or ready-to-pull; for old drives this means we know which physical spindle holds the bytes, even if the dock hasn't been wired up yet. The gate covers three fine-grained states — pending, requested, ready — which collapse upward into this one coarse phase.
Sub-routines · operational playbook
Google Takeout · personal Gmail / Drive / Photos
takeout.google.com → 'Add to Drive' delivery (resumable via rclone)
Sign in as the target account. Deselect all, pick the data types you need, choose Add to Drive delivery (NOT 'send download link'), set archive format to
.zip · 50 GB chunks, submit. Google takes 2–7 days to prepare and emails when ready. The archive lands inside Drive under Takeout/ and pulls via rclone with chunk-level resume — direct download links are not resumable and cost you the whole 50 GB chunk on disconnect.rclone copy gdrive:Takeout/ /Volumes/G-DRIVE/takeout// --transfers=4 --checksum --progress
when: Personal Gmail / Drive / Photos / YouTube accounts (Dan, Cindy, etc.)
Google Workspace export · admin-managed domains
admin.google.com → Data Export (admin role required)
Workspace exports run through the Admin console, not Takeout. Sign in as a Super Admin, navigate to Data Export, start a fresh export. Google delivers to a Cloud Storage bucket the admin specifies. Pull via gsutil or rclone with a GCS backend. Multi-domain exports must run per-domain.
gsutil -m cp -r gs:/// /Volumes/G-DRIVE/workspace//
when: audreyinc + audreylam Workspace tenants
Apple iCloud · Privacy archive
privacy.apple.com → request copy of your data
Sign in at privacy.apple.com with each Apple ID. Request a copy of your data, choose ALL categories. Apple takes 2–7 days to prepare and emails when ready. 14-day download window — link expires after that. Each chunk is delivered as a non-resumable HTTPS download; budget enough overnight time per chunk.
# direct browser download per link — no rclone backend exists for the Apple side
# launch each chunk in a fresh tab, let macOS Downloads handle it
when: Audrey audreyinc + Audrey audreylam + family iCloud dan@dareusa.com
Old hard drives · mount inventory
Thunderbolt dock → diskutil list → ddrescue if flaky
Stack the 8 unlabeled drives next to the dock. Pop each one in turn, give it 30 seconds to enumerate, snapshot
diskutil list output to a file. If a drive throws SMART warnings or fails to mount, do not retry repeatedly — image the whole spindle to a sparse file with ddrescue first, then mount the image. Spinners that almost work can fail permanently from a single bad retry.diskutil list >> ~/Desktop/data-gf-cx/hd-inventory.txt
ddrescue -r3 -d /dev/diskN /Volumes/RAID/forensic/diskN.img diskN.log
when: Each of the 8 unlabeled HDs + the old iMac internal
RAID + file backups · pre-dedup baseline
rclone ls + treesize → catalog before touching anything
Before you dedup, snapshot what's currently there.
rclone ls --max-depth=3 into a manifest file, plus du -sh per top-level dir, plus a tree of directories ≥1 GB. This is the baseline you compare against AFTER dedup so you can verify the right things shrank and nothing important vanished.rclone ls /Volumes/RAID/ --max-depth=3 > baseline-pre-dedup.txt
du -sh /Volumes/RAID/*/ | sort -h > baseline-du.txt
when: Once · before the first dedup pass on RAID
Items at this gate (18)
| Google Takeout · dare.co.uk | cloud | 581 GB | ready | ⚠ 2026-06-01 (3d) |
| Google Takeout · smart.sellars | cloud | 1.5 TB | pending | |
| Google Takeout · Cindy Gmail | cloud | 500 GB | pending | |
| Google Workspace export · Audrey Workspace · audreyinc | cloud | 2.0 TB | pending | |
| Google Workspace export · Audrey Workspace · audreylam | cloud | 2.0 TB | pending | |
| Apple Privacy export (iCloud) · Audrey iCloud · audreyinc | cloud | 1.0 TB | pending | |
| Apple Privacy export (iCloud) · Audrey iCloud · audreylam | cloud | 1.0 TB | pending | |
| Apple Privacy export (iCloud) · Family iCloud · dan@dareusa.com | cloud | 2.0 TB | pending | |
| existing RAID + file backups | raid_backups | 10–15 TB | pending | |
| Old iMac | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (1 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (2 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (3 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (4 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (5 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (6 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (7 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending | |
| Old HD (8 of 8) — unlabeled | legacy_hds | size TBD | pending |
Gate-exit checklist
Verify before moving items into LANDED:
- Source identified and reachable (login works, archive is ready, drive is mounted)
- Size estimated within 20% — needed to plan landing-tier headroom
- Deadline captured in migrations.yml if hard (Takeout expiry, iCloud 14-day window)
- Target spindle decided (G-Drive vs RAID intake partition) based on size
Gate A · SOURCED · baked 2026-05-29 from
migrations.yml + GATE_DETAIL