Data location and transfers

This page explains the concepts of transfer configuration location and source data location, and also describes how locations and transfers interact.

For more information about BigQuery locations more generally, see Dataset locations.

Transfer location

Transfer configurations have locations. When you set up a transfer configuration, set the transfer configuration up in the same project as the destination dataset. The location of the transfer configuration is automatically set to the same location that you specified for the destination dataset. The BigQuery Data Transfer Service processes and stages data in the same location as the destination BigQuery dataset. If you don't have a destination dataset when you create the transfer, you must create one in BigQuery before configuring the transfer.