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Steps for G Suite Backup & Restore

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

STEP 1

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

Admin mode selection screen

Acknowledge the warning message indicating that the selected mode cannot be altered later.

Confirmation alert for admin mode

Tick the checkbox to confirm your mode selection, then click the "Continue" button to proceed.

Confirm admin mode and continue

STEP 2

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.

Start screen

Once activated, you will get this screen in the "Setup" tab to select Source & Destination for backup.


SysTools Backup Endpoint Selection

You can also apply the number of users for concurrent backup. To do this, go to "Settings" tab.


Step by Step Procedure to Perform G Suite Backup

STEP 3

Select “G Suite” as a source platform and “Outlook” as destination platform.

enter source and destination

The tool does not require Outlook installation on your system. The destination simply signifies that the backup format is set to "PST".

STEP 4

In the same screen, select the categories that you want to backup from G Suite under the Workload selection.

workload screen

STEP 5

Using the Date-Range Filter option you can perform the date based selective backup of the mailbox data. Click on Next.

filters

The emails, contacts and calendars are stored in the PST file, while the documents (docs, slides, sheets, drawings) are downloaded to your local computer.

STEP 6

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


Source screen

STEP 7

After validating, the permissions will be granted to the source user. Click on Next.

provide details

STEP 8

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.

destination screen

From the dropdown menu, select your PST file size preference. (By Default The Value is 40 GB.)


size of PST file

This value specifies a maximum size limit for each resultant PST file(s).

  • For example, if you have 11 GB of data to export and you have selected a 10 GB PST size. Then the software will create 2 PST files, one with 10 GB and another with the remaining 1 GB of data.
  • As long as the exported data (11 GB), is less than the partition size (20, 30, or 40 GB), you will get a single PST file of original size.
  • If you have large mailbox data to export (let’s say 200 GB), and if you select the 40 GB partition size. The tool will automatically split the data and create five separate 40 GB PST files (5 * 40 = 200 GB).
STEP 9

Validate the correct permissions and click "Next".

validate
STEP 10

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: It will automatically fetch Users from Source domain.
  • Import Users: This will import users through CSV.
  • Download Template: This downloads a template to be used as a sample for creating CSV file.

fetch users
STEP 11

The list of users is now, displayed on the screen.

user list

STEP 12

Click on Validate to authorize selected user source account(s).

validate users


Once the users are validated, click on "OK" button.

ok button

STEP 13

After the validation is successfully completed, click on Start Backup button from the ribbon bar to start the backup process.

start backup


The software will check your license and provide details. Click "Start" to finally start the backup.

start button

STEP 14

You can view the Backup Status in the below format.

list view

STEP 15

The successful backup status will then be displayed on the software panel.

status

STEP 16

After successful backup, click on Download Report

  • Summary Report - The summary report downloads a single report displaying all the user accounts alongwith backup details of emails, contacts, calendars and documents.
  • Detailed Report - The detailed report downloads individual reports of all/selected G Suite user accounts with their backup details.

report download

STEP 17

Re-Run Backup option is also provided in order to perform the backup again.

  • Retry Failed Items: To backup the data which didn't get downloaded.
  • Re-Run Full Backup: To perform the entire backup process again.
  • Delta Backup: To backup the newly arrived data without duplication.

rerun backup

STEP 18

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.

  • The Email/Contacts/Calendars/ are all present in a single PST file.
  • A Documents Folder containing the Google Drive data is present

Exported Data

  • Inside the Documents folder you get all the Google Drive data in its Original format.

Exported Data

Step by Step Procedure to Perform G Suite Restore

STEP 3

Click on the "Restore" button to switch the window to restore option.

Restore Tab
STEP 4

Choose "Outlook" as Source platform and "G Suite " as Destination platform.

Select Endpoints
STEP 5

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.

Workload and Date Filter
STEP 6

You will now come to Source screen where you have to select the folder path where the Outlook PST files are stored.

Folder Path
STEP 7

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.

Validate

STEP 6

After successful validation, click on Next button.

After Validation

STEP 8

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

Type Details

Once Validation completes press Next

After Target Validation

STEP 9

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.

users

Import Users: This will import users through CSV.

users

Download Template: In this option, you can download a CSV template in which you can add source and destination users manually.

users
STEP 10

The list of users is displayed on the screen.

User list


You can select users based on the Priority and view the Selected Users only.

STEP 11

Click on Validate to authorize selected user source and destination resources.

Validate

STEP 12

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.

Stop Migration

STEP 13

You can check the mailboxes with complete migration under Completed tab.

STEP 14

After completion of migration, click on the Download Report button to generate the detailed migration report.

Download 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.

migration summary


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.

report downloaded

STEP 15

Re-Run Restore option is also provided in order to perform the restore again.

  • Retry Failed Items: To restore the items that were failed during the process.
  • Re-Run Full Restore: To perform the entire restore process again.
  • Delta Restore: To restore data from a new Outlook data file into the account.

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