Manual method
Request your Oura data through Membership Hub; use the archive rather than relying only on a summary report.
- Sign in to Oura Membership Hub with the account linked to your ring.
- Choose Export data → Request your data.
- Wait for the reminder email, then return to Membership Hub and select the ready export.
- Download and preserve the original package with its tables.
Coverage and limitations: PDF Shareable Reports summarize selected trends and are not equivalent to the full data request. Oura duration fields can be expressed in seconds. Keep original units and time zones when analyzing the tables.
Size and time to allow
Illustrative small / central / large case: 0.005 / 0.1 / 1 GB (decimal GB). These are planning assumptions, not a measured average per person. 100 MB is a working example for years of tabular sleep/activity metrics; it is not a measured customer average.
Preparation: Oura says the archive may take up to 10 days to become available. Download promptly; no fixed expiry is assumed from the consulted page.
For the central 0.1 GB example, network transfer alone is approximately:
| Connection | Estimated transfer |
|---|---|
| 10 Mbps | 1.9 minutes |
| 50 Mbps | 23 seconds |
| 100 Mbps | 11 seconds |
Assumes 70% sustained use of the stated connection. Provider throttling, many small files, retries, local extraction and copying add time. For online backup use your upload speed. These are not estimates of the provider’s preparation queue. See calculation and large-file advice.
Store and verify the archive
The example is small enough for an encrypted USB key, external drive or private cloud folder. Choose a second independent copy as well; a single USB key is easy to lose and a sync folder alone can propagate deletion. For health records, restrict access and avoid shared-family/public-link destinations; keep encryption recovery information separately.
Create oura/YYYY-MM-DD/originals/, preserve the untouched download, and extract a separate working copy when needed. Allow extra free space for archive plus extraction; compressed text can expand far beyond twice its size. Record account/scope, export date, date coverage and missing items in a local README without passwords.
Check the first and last dates, sleep-duration units and representative metrics, and retain the export unchanged before creating charts. Reopen a sample from the second copy before deleting or replacing any source. Storage choices and verification.
Sources and review
Public documentation was reviewed on 27 October 2026. No signed-in export or restoration was performed. Account options and availability can change; follow the current provider instructions.