Protecting Gmail data

Protecting Gmail data

What items can be backed up?

You can back up Gmail users' mailboxes. A mailbox backup also includes the Calendar and Contacts data. Optionally, you can choose to back up the shared calendars.

The following items are skipped during a backup:
  1. The Birthdays, Reminders, Tasks calendars
  2. Folders attached to calendar events
  3. The Directory folder in Contacts
The following Calendar items are skipped, due to Google Calendar API limitations:
  1. Appointment slots
  2. The conferencing field of an event
  3. The calendar setting All-day event notifications
  4. The calendar setting Auto-accept invitations (in calendars for rooms or shared spaces)

The following Contacts items are skipped, due to Google People API limitations:
  1. The Other contacts folder
  2. The external profiles of a contact (Directory profile, Google profile)
  3. The contact field File as

What items can be recovered?

The following items can be recovered from a mailbox backup:
  1. Mailboxes
  2. Email folders (According to Google terminology, "labels". Labels are presented in the backup software as folders, for consistency with other data presentation.)
  3. Email messages
  4. Calendar events
  5. Contacts
You can use search to locate items in a backup, unless the backup is encrypted. Search in encrypted
backups is not supported.

When recovering mailboxes and mailbox items, you can select whether to overwrite the items in the
target location.


Limitations

  1. Contact photos cannot be recovered
  2. The Out of office calendar item is recovered as a regular calendar event, due to Google Calendar API limitations

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