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Google Workspace Backup Solution. How to Backup Google Workspace?

The Bacula Enterprise Google Workspace Module is very easy to deploy and configure. Not only that; it is available with a unique flat licensing model that allows users to scale up without any cost restrictions of any kind (just like Bacula M365 Module!)
It supports the following specific services:

  • Google Drive
  • Google Mail

It is shipped with advanced parallelization, resiliency, and flexibility features in addition to covering most of the possible Google Workspace use case scenarios. A full feature list is presented below:

Common features

  • Google Workspace APIs based backups
  • Support for free Gmail accounts
  • Support for accounts under a Google Workspace subscription
  • Multi-service parallelization capabilities
  • Multi-threaded processes
  • Advanced tunning configurations
  • Automatic parallelization of fetching processes
  • Generation of user-friendly report for restore operations
  • Network resiliency mechanisms
  • Latest Google Authentication mechanisms
  • Discovery/List/Query capabilities
  • Restore objects to Google Workspace
    • To original entity
    • To any other entity
  • Restore any object to filesystem
  • Restore HTML report to user mailbox or user drive

Backup and Restore of Google Drive

  • Backup and Restore of Users My Drive
  • Backup and Restore of Shared Drive Units
  • Hash check during backup and restore to ensure data integrity
  • Incremental & Differential backup
  • Advanced selection capabilities
    • Include/exclude by name
    • Automatic discovery to backup everything
    • Include/exclude by RegEx
    • Folder selection capabilities for backup
      • Include/exclude by name
      • Automatic discovery to backup everything
      • Include/exclude by regular expressions
    • Include/exclude by name
    • Automatic discovery to backup everything
    • Include/exclude by regular expressions
  • Support for regular files and also native Google Workspace files (export)
  • Folder and file granularity for restore
  • Computed hash check at backup and restore time
  • Backup and restore of permissions shares
  • Backup and restore of shared elements with users
  • Backup and restore of Google Drive file versions
  • Backup and restore of file comments
  • Backup and restore of trash

Backup and Restore of Google Mail (GMail)

  • Backup and Restore of email messages
    • Messages metadata
    • Messages content
  • Backup and Restore of attachments
  • Backup and Restore of mailbox settings
    • AutoForwarding, Imap, Language and Pop settings
    • Delegates
    • Filters
    • SendAs addresses
    • Forwarding addresses
  • Incremental & Differential backup
  • Advanced selection capabilities
    • Include/exclude users by name
    • Automatic discovery to backup all Workspace users
    • Include/exclude users by RegEx
    • Label selection capabilities for backup
      • Include/exclude by name
      • Automatic discovery to backup all of them
      • Include/exclude by regular expressions
  • Export mail messages to mime RFC 822 local files
  • Export attachments to local files
  • Restore to original GMail mailbox
  • Restore to a differnt user GMail mailbox
  • Restore to the original labels
  • Restore to an specific label
  • Fully indexed information into Bacula Catalog
  • Advanced search capabilities for restore operations
  • Privacy excluding features:
    • Ability to exclude message fields from the index
    • Exclude private or spam messages through powerful filtering capabilities