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Export to PDFCloud Backup for Google Workspace can protect your Google Workspace data (including Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Contacts, Chat, and shared drives), Google Vault data (including Gmail, Drive, and shared drives), Google Directory (users and groups), and Google Classroom data, by offering automatic backups and flexible restores/exports that enable fast recovery from errors, attacks, and failures.
To find out how AvePoint charges for Cloud Backup for Google Workspace, refer to .
*Note: Suspended users and Archived users are not in the scope of counting licenses for charge.
Google Workspace, Google Directory, and Google Classroom are individual modules. To use each module, ensure that your organization has purchased the module in the subscription of Cloud Backup for Google Workspace. Suppose your organization has Google Workspace, Google Directory, and Google Classroom modules. In that case, the following pages distinguish these modules via the Google Workspace, Google Directory, and Google Classroom tabs: Dashboard, Protection, Restore, and Subscription.
*Note: The following functions are only available for organizations with the Google Workspace module in the subscription of Cloud Backup for Google Workspace: Data management, Self-service (for ReCenter), and Unusual activities analysis.
For more information on the data types that are supported or unsupported, refer to the Support Lists.
Protection for the Google Vault data is an addon in the Google Workspace module. If your organization needs the protection for Vault, contact the AvePoint representative to enable this feature in your tenant’s subscription to Cloud Backup for Google Workspace. Once the Vault protection has been enabled, the following pages will display the Google Workspace and Vault tabs to distinguish the two protections: Dashboard, Protection, and Restore. For additional details, see Vault Data Protection.
Cloud Backup for Google Workspace offers integration with Ava, an AvePoint virtual assistant that offers instructions and answers to your questions.
Note the following:
Cloud Backup for Google Workspace supports the following languages: English, French, German, and Japanese.
The following table provides the required browser versions.
| Browser | Version |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome | The latest version |
| Microsoft Edge | The latest version |
| Microsoft Edge based on Chromium | The latest version |
You can use the AvePoint Online Services Graph APIs to do the following:
If you want to build an integration between a hub in Microsoft Azure Event Hubs and the audit records from Cloud Backup for Google Workspace, refer to the instructions in the .
Data Export Service is provided for organizations who want to archive their legacy backup data that exceeds the retention policies, or the organizations who want to remove their backup data as they plan to end the subscription to Cloud Backup for Google Workspace. For more details, see Data Export Service.
*Note: If you only want to export a smaller sample set of data to plain file format, use the Export button in the restore wizard. For details on downloading exported data, refer to Download Data of Export Jobs.