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Backup GDrive data onto the Vaultastic Open Store

Overview

  • GDrive from the Google Workspace suit of products contains important documents that need to be frequently backed up.
  • Using the LegacyFlo GDrive-S3-ZIP request type, you can now backup files from any user's Google Drive to the Vaultastic Inactive Store.

Step 1: Getting the access key and registering with LegacyFlo

Your Google Workspace needs to be primed up to get access to the user data on GDrive to be backed up using LegacyFlo. The steps to do so are given here.

Step 2: Register the S3 bucket on which Open Store is hosted with LegacyFlo

The S3 bucket on which the Vaultastic Open Store is hosted has to be registered with LegacyFlo (this is a one time activity). For the steps on registration, refer to this article

Note: For the Open Store, the first step of bucket creation, policies and permissions is to be mentioned in the article is to be skipped.

Step 3: Submitting a LegacyFlo request

You can submit requests to backup GDrive data using the LegacyFlo interface.

The request type to be used is GDrive-S3-ZIP.

The parameters for the request are as follows:

Source Information

FIELD NAMEDESCRIPTIONSAMPLE VALUE
User IDUser id on Google Workspace domain whose data needs to be imported
(Note: The id should not contain the domain name.)
"john"
DomainSource domain on Google Workspace"baya.com"
GDrive Folder name

The folder from which data needs to backed up on the destination. All the contents of this folder and its subfolders will be backed up. 

Note that the folder name should not start with a /.

If all the GDrive data is to be backed up, leave this value empty

"23-Jun-2020"

Filter Information

FIELD NAMEDESCRIPTIONSAMPLE VALUE
Since (DD-MMM-YYYY)If this field is left blank, all the files in the source will be added to the backup.
If this field has a valid input, then all files which were created or modified since the date specified will be added to the backup.
"31-JAN-2022"

Other Information

FIELD NAMEDESCRIPTIONSAMPLE VALUE
Send report toA valid email id to which status reports are sentjohn@baya.com

Destination Information

FIELD NAMEDESCRIPTION

SAMPLE VALUE

S3 bucket nameThis is the name of the S3 bucket on which your Vaultastic Open Store is hosted.mithi-ind1-vaultastic-legacystore
S3 folder pathThis is the name of your Vaultastic domainbaya-com.vaultastic.com
File nameThe destination filename for the result of the LegacyFlo request. Choose a filename that will help you identify the contents.

john-jan-2021.zip,

freshdesk-backup-nov.zip

Refer to this topic to get the S3 credentials for your Vaultastic Open Store.

Step 4 (optional): Submitting multiple LegacyFlo requests to backup data for multiple users

To upload multiple jobs using a CSV, create a CSV file with a list of all the users and other details required to upload data.