Follow step by step guide to backup and restore data using G Suite Backup & Restore tool.
Pre-Requisites:
Pre-requisites for G Suite
If you want to view where Google Drive Data is sent go to step 18
Choose the "Admin Mode" to manage backups or restore processes for multiple user accounts with elevated privileges.
Note: Standard user mode is unavailable for G Suite
Acknowledge the warning message indicating that the selected mode cannot be altered later.
Tick the checkbox to confirm your mode selection, then click the "Continue" button to proceed.
If your tool is not activated, then see the activation steps here. Activation Steps
The Tool provides the FAQ section in the "Activate" window itself. You can also click on "Help" button to view more details.
Once activated, you will get this screen in the "Setup" tab to select Source & Destination for backup.
You can also apply the number of users for concurrent backup. To do this, go to "Settings" tab.
Select “G Suite” as a source platform and “Outlook” as destination platform.
The tool does not require Outlook installation on your system. The destination simply signifies that the backup format is set to "PST".
In the same screen, select the categories that you want to backup from G Suite under the Workload selection.
Using the Date-Range Filter option you can perform the date based selective backup of the mailbox data. Click on Next.
The emails, contacts and calendars are stored in the PST file, while the documents (docs, slides, sheets, drawings) are downloaded to your local computer.
Move to the Source Screen now.
Provide the Admin Email and Service Account details carefully.
After this, upload the Certificate File that is the p12 file into the software panel and click on "Validate" to provide permissions to the user.
Refer to this to create project for G Suite. Source Google Cloud Console Project
Now, browse the backup folder path to set the destination where PST file will be saved.
Make sure that the folder path is within 20 characters.
From the dropdown menu, select your PST file size preference. (By Default The Value is 40 GB.)
This value specifies a maximum size limit for each resultant PST file(s).
On the Users screen, there are several ways in which you can add users from the source account that needs to be processed.
Click on Validate to authorize selected user source account(s).
Once the users are validated, click on "OK" button.
After the validation is successfully completed, click on Start Backup button from the ribbon bar to start the backup process.
The software will check your license and provide details. Click "Start" to finally start the backup.
After successful backup, click on Download Report
Re-Run Backup option is also provided in order to perform the backup again.
Check the Folder location where the data gets backed up.
Each users have their own folder. Within that folder the data is organised in the following manner.
In the same screen, select the Categories that you want to restore from Outlook under the Workload selection.
Using the Date-Range Filter option you can perform the date based selective restoration of the mailbox data. Click on Next.
You will now come to Source screen where you have to select the folder path where the Outlook PST files are stored.
You will need to put PST files in the folders (created with the name of target G Suite email IDs) .
And then select the folder where you have kept the PST files as the "Backup Folder Path".
After selecting the path, click on "Validate" button to validate permissions.
Now you will come to destination screen where you need to enter Admin G Suite Email and Application ID and validate the permissions. Steps to Get Application ID
Once Validation completes press Next
On the Users screen, there are several ways in which you can add users from the source account that needs to be processed.
Fetch Users: Tool fetches the folders name from given source location and shows them as source users name.
Import Users: This will import users through CSV.
Download Template: In this option, you can download a CSV template in which you can add source and destination users manually.
The list of users is displayed on the screen.
You can select users based on the Priority and view the Selected Users only.
After the validation is successfully completed it will show against the Destination permissions. Click on Start Restore after that.
Users can also Stop Restore if required while the restore is In Progress.
After completion of migration, click on the Download Report button to generate the detailed migration report.
The tool provides two options for downloading the reports:
Summary Report: The summary report will be a single .csv file containing migration reports of all the selected users for migration.
Detailed Report: Here, you get the option to save the detailed migration report of the mailboxes you want to. Select the mailbox and click on Download button.
Re-Run Restore option is also provided in order to perform the restore again.
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