We are thrilled to announce a major expansion to our ecosystem: Google Workspace Backup and Restore is now officially supported in Duplicati, starting with the Stable 2.3 release.

Whether you are an IT administrator managing a full domain or a small team securing critical business assets, Duplicati now provides a seamless, robust solution to protect your Google Workspace data against accidental deletion, ransomware, and data loss.

Comprehensive Coverage for Your Google Environment

Our new integration utilizes Google APIs to safely and efficiently back up your most critical data. Duplicati provides broad coverage across the Google Workspace suite, including:

• Gmail: Emails, attachments, labels, folder structures, filters, and settings.

• Google Drive & Shared Drives: Files, folders, permissions, comments, and previous file versions.

• Google Calendar & Contacts: Events, recurring patterns, sharing permissions (ACLs), contact groups, and photos.

• Google Tasks & Keep: Task lists, Keep notes, and their respective attachments.

• And more: Support for Google Chat, Groups, Sites, and Organizational Units (capabilities vary by API limits).

Key Features and Benefits

We have designed the Google Workspace integration with flexibility, transparency, and data fidelity in mind:

• Native Format Preservation: No proprietary lock-in. Duplicati stores your data in standard, accessible formats. Emails are exported as RFC 2822 (.eml), structured objects as JSON, and native Google Docs are automatically exported to standard formats like DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX.

• Domain-Wide Backups: Perfect for administrators, the feature supports domain-wide delegation via a Service Account, allowing you to back up all users in a Google Workspace domain automatically and unattended.

• Flexible Restore Options: Restore files directly back into Google Workspace (complete with duplicate detection), restore data from one user into another user’s account (cross-user restore), or restore everything directly to a local disk for forensic investigation and manual review.

• Metadata Retention: Original timestamps, file permissions, and access controls are preserved wherever the Google API allows.

Licensing and Availability

The Google Workspace backup module is source-available. While there are no limitations on restoring your data, running backups in a production environment requires a commercial license. Pricing is built to scale predictably at just $0.50 per Google Workspace user/month. A free limit covering up to 5 users or groups is also included, allowing you to easily test the configuration before rolling it out.

Get Started Today

Take back control of your Microsoft 365 data, standardize your policies, and maintain full control over your storage costs.

For a complete step-by-step guide on generating your Service Account JSON, configuring permissions, and optimizing your backups, check out our Google Workspace Backup and Restore Documentation, or contact our sales team to purchase your licenses and start deploying to your workspace today!