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    Cloud Backup for Google Workspace April 2025

    Release Date: April 13, 2025

    • Cloud Backup for Google Workspace now supports backing up and exporting Google Vault data (Gmail, Drive, and shared drives). If your organization wants to enable the Vault protection add-on in the Google Workspace module, contact your AvePoint representative to enable this feature in your tenant’s subscription to Cloud Backup for Google Workspace.

    • Administrators can now add multiple users into a restore queue in Cloud Backup for Google Workspace, allowing bulk restores for the users’ Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and Contacts backup data. Users can be selected in Calendar mode or imported via CSV file upload.

    • New navigation updates are being rolled out across the Confidence Platform, delivering a more intuitive, consistent, and efficient user experience. In Cloud Backup for Google Workspace, the left navigation pane has the following key updates:

      • Renamed the following options:
    NewPrevious
    DashboardOverview
    ReportingReport center
    Unusual activities analysisGoogle Workspace unusual activities analysis
    SubscriptionSubscription consumption
    - Moved **System auditor** and **Subscription** to the **System** section. - You can now click the new icon (![Icon: ReCenter portal](/en/google-backup-release-notes/new-features-and-improvements-from-previous-versions/images/image1.png "Icon: ReCenter portal")) to go to the ReCenter portal.

    • Cloud Backup for Google Workspace now supports selecting Chat backup data via the Calendar mode. The preview tag has been removed for the Chat service as this protection is now fully supported.

    • The Last Modified By column has been added to the list of files with unusual activities, showing the email addresses of users who last added or modified the files.

    • In Settings > General > Backup settings, you can now configure the Advanced labels exclusion setting to exclude more labels from the Gmail backup scope, and configure the Advanced folders exclusion setting to exclude more folders from the Drive or Shared drives backup scope.

    • Cloud Backup for Google Workspace has now been deployed to the following Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data centers:

      • GCP for Australia Southeast (Sydney)

      • GCP for West Europe (Eemshaven, Netherlands)

      • GCP for Japan (Tokyo)

      • GCP for East US (Moncks Corner)

      • GCP for South Korea (Seoul)

    Note that the GCP data centers only support the default Google Cloud Storage provided by AvePoint, and the Multi-Geo function is currently unsupported in the GCP data centers.