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 Open or Deep 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/Deep Store is hosted with LegacyFlo
The S3 bucket on which the Vaultastic Open/Deep 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/Deep 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 NAME | DESCRIPTION | SAMPLE VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| User ID | User id on Google Workspace domain whose data needs to be imported (Note: The id should not contain the domain name.) | "john" |
| Domain | Source 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 NAME | DESCRIPTION | SAMPLE 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 NAME | DESCRIPTION | SAMPLE VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| Send report to | A valid email id to which status reports are sent | john@baya.com |
Destination Information
| FIELD NAME | DESCRIPTION | SAMPLE VALUE |
|---|---|---|
| S3 bucket name | This is the name of the S3 bucket on which your Vaultastic Open or Deep Store is hosted. | mithi-ind1-vaultastic-legacystore |
| S3 folder path | This is the name of your Vaultastic domain | baya-com.vaultastic.com |
| Doc Type |
| |
| File name |
| 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.