Restore Shared Drive
The Restore Shared Drive feature enables administrators to recover files and folders from Shared Drive backups, ensuring that collaborative workspaces are restored efficiently. This process helps prevent data loss and ensures that teams can quickly regain access to critical shared resources, maintaining smooth collaboration.
Step 1: Select Backup Job
Restore
Navigation : In the BDRSuite Backup Server under the tab SaaS Application, choose Recovery. On the Recovery of Backup Data page, click on Restore option of the respective backup job that you want to restore.
Restore Report
If restore of the specific backup job is already performed then clicking the restore report icon will open the detailed reports and also you can download the logs to toubleshoot restore failures.
Step 2: Choose Restore Type
Select Restore Shared Drive option and click Next.
Step 3: Restore Version
The restore version is created based on the end time of the backup (i.e. the date and time when the backup process scheduled is completed), this is named recovery points. The full backup and incremental backup time-stamps are listed with the latest backup version as a parent node and the old backup version further sub-nodes. You can fall back to the required time-stamp whenever needed to recover the backed-up data.
Time Range
Select the time range or date range by clicking on the drop down menu under the Time Range option. The drop-down menu will typically display a list of preset time ranges, such as “Last 24 hours,” “Last 1 Week,” or “Last 1 Month.” The user can select one of these options to quickly choose a time range, or they can select a date range to specify the start and end dates.
Restore Point
As per the range chosen the restore points/time stamps that falls within that time period will be listed and can be selected from the drop down menu under the Restore Point option. Time stamps of the Full – full backup, Incr – incremental backup and the R- Incr – retry backup (Incremental ) will be used to denote the respective time stamp. Choose the restore point to proceed.
Step 4: Granular Recovery
Restore Shared Drive
Restore the entire Shared Drive or only selected folders and files and further sub folders can be expanded and chosen.
Clicking on the search/filter option will let you customize the filtering of files/ folders based on the name, last modified time and the size of files/folders.
Step 5: Granular Recovery
With this option, users can now granularly select the Google Workspace items to recover.
User Mailbox Granular Recovery : This option helps the user to recover the following user mailbox items.
- Recover Mailbox
- Recover Mails
- Recover Google Drive Items
- Recover Calendar Events
- Recover Contacts
Choose the mailbox to restore
Restore Mailbox
The entire data from the selected mailbox will be restored. Included Items: Mails, OneDrive, Calendar & Contacts.
Restore Mails
Restore all the Mail Folders or only selected Folder(s)/Mail(s)
You can search for the mail folders and items in the mailbox using the search option. Click on the search icon and enter the required details in the pop up page as shown below.
You can also choose the time range within which you want to search your mailbox.
Note: Search option while restoring in the BDRSuite for Google Workspace is for now supported only for the Mail restores.
Restore Google Drive
Restore the entire Google Drive or only selected folders and files and further sub folders can be expanded and chosen.
Clicking on File name search will open the following page using which you can filter the Google Drive files & folders based on Name, last modified time and their size.
Restore Calendar Events
Restore the entire calendar or only the selected folder(s) and file(s)
Restore Contacts
Restore the entire contacts or only the selected Folder(s) or File(s). Clicking on the search icon will enable you to search the contacts based on their names.
Restore Shared Drive
Restore Option
1. Restore to the Same Shared Drive: This option will restore the backup data to the same drive.
2. Restore to different Shared Drive: This option will let you select the drive from the list and restore the backup data to the selected user.
Target Mailbox: Select the target mailbox to restore the backup data.
Restore Description: Enter a restore description for future reference.
Step 7: Review
Review all your selections and click Restore to initiate the process .
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