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Method: projects.locations.migrationJobs.start
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Start an already created migration job.
HTTP request
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global africa-south1 asia-east1 asia-east2 asia-northeast1 asia-northeast2 asia-northeast3 asia-south1 asia-south2 asia-southeast1 asia-southeast2 asia-southeast3 australia-southeast1 australia-southeast2 europe-central2 europe-north1 europe-north2 europe-southwest1 europe-west1 europe-west10 europe-west12 europe-west15 europe-west2 europe-west3 europe-west4 europe-west6 europe-west8 europe-west9 me-central1 me-central2 me-west1 northamerica-northeast1 northamerica-northeast2 northamerica-south1 southamerica-east1 southamerica-west1 us-central1 us-central2 us-east1 us-east4 us-east5 us-east7 us-south1 us-west1 us-west2 us-west3 us-west4 us-west8
POST https://datamigration.googleapis.com/v1alpha2/{name}:start
Path parameters
Parameters
name
string
Name of the migration job resource to start.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:
datamigration.migrationjobs.start
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platformhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-datamigration
For more information, see the Authentication Overview .
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Last updated 2026-07-06 UTC.
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