---
title: "How to create a transfer"
slug: "how-to-create-a-transfer"
description: "Transfer data to your data warehouse or cloud storage with Supermetrics Hub. Follow our guide for seamless configuration and setup."
updated: 2025-08-22T11:26:11Z
published: 2025-08-22T11:26:11Z
---

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# How to create a transfer

Start transferring data into your data warehouse, cloud storage, data lake, or Supermetrics Storage by configuring a transfer in the Supermetrics Hub.

This guide applies to all data warehouse destinations except BigQuery (marketplace). See our separate guide on [creating a BigQuery (marketplace) transfer](/v1/docs/how-to-create-a-bigquery-marketplace-transfer). You can also use the [Supermetrics API to connect your data to various destinations](/v1/docs/how-to-use-the-query-manager).

## Before you begin

Before you create a data transfer, you need to create a destination for your data. See our [destination setup guide](/v1/docs/how-to-connect-to-a-data-warehouse-destination) for instructions.

## Instructions

1. On the [Supermetrics Hub](https://hub.supermetrics.com/), go to **Data transfers** under **Manage**.
2. Click **New transfer**.
3. Select the data source and the destination, and click **Next**.
4. Fill in the details in the transfer configuration view.
  1. Select the data source accounts to use. Depending on the data source, this selection can have different titles, such as advertiser, property, or view. [We list the data source account names in this support article](/v1/docs/about-data-source-accounts).
  2. Select which table group to use.
  3. Set the refresh schedule.
  4. Select which email address to send alerts in case the transfer fails.
  5. Select additional options for the transfer.
  6. Click **Next**.
5. Enter a name for the transfer, click **Save Transfer**.

## Table and partition expiration

When you're setting up your transfer, make sure to set the table and partition expiration time to "never" or to as many days as possible. Setting the table and partition expiration times as long as possible will make sure that you won't accidentally lose data when running a backfill.

See Google's documentation for:

- [Updating default partition expiration times](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/updating-datasets#partition-expiration)
- [Updating a table's expiration time](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/managing-tables#updating_a_tables_expiration_time)
- [Setting partition expiration](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/managing-partitioned-tables#partition-expiration)

## More resources

- [How to backfill data](/v1/docs/how-to-backfill-data)
- [How to monitor your transfers](/v1/docs/how-to-monitor-your-bigquery-marketplace-data-transfers)