CrashPlan for Google Workspace provides data resiliency to keep your modern workplace moving forward. Free yourself from Google’s 30-day retention, limited versioning, and incomplete recovery capabilities. Meet compliance requirements, protect against ransomware, and enable your employees to recover from data loss quickly and easily.
Automated, incremental backups ensure your business data is always protected with no end-user action required. Your team can be back up and running quickly with little to no data loss.
Security is central to everything we do. Seamless integrations with central identity providers like Google Cloud Identity, coupled with role-based access control, ensure data is readable on a strictly need-to-know basis. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest and is air-gapped inside the cloud.
CrashPlan’s powerful search capabilities make it easy to filter and find any email or file. You can search within content, as well as filenames, subject lines, and to/from fields. Preview directly in the console so you know you’ve got the exact version you need. This makes both eDiscovery and day-to-day data recovery simple.
Save time for both end-users and your IT team, with CrashPlan’s easy self-service recovery. Users can restore one email or file, or large amounts of data at once. Restore data to its original location or a new location.
Easily control all elements of backup behavior, including backup schedules, file and folder inclusions and exclusions, number of versions to retain, user quota limits, and much more.
CrashPlan makes it easy to create a journaled archive of all emails, assign special policies to identified users, and leverage powerful search capabilities to ease the burden of eDiscovery.
These days, businesses run on email and cloud collaboration. It’s how we get things done. Without this data, your organization could suffer lost productivity, erased intellectual property, time-consuming rework, and even legal consequences. And while many people assume data in the cloud is automatically backed up, SaaS providers typically operate on a shared responsibility model; the provider is responsible for the app functionality and uptime, but the customer needs to protect their own data.
When you implement a dedicated Gmail and Google Drive backup, you protect yourself from multiple risks at once.
Meet requirements dictated by regulations like GDPR, SOX, HIPAA, and more, with features including customizable data retention and flexible storage targets. Fulfill data residency needs and audit reports.
Avoid extended downtime, interrupted collaboration, and repetitive rework when files and emails are constantly backed up and simple to recover. Seamless data resiliency, built-in versioning, and intuitive tools minimize disruption caused by data loss.
Data in the cloud is vulnerable to ever-evolving ransomware and insider threats. Secure, dedicated backup for your Google Workspace data ensures you never have to pay a ransom or lose important intellectual property due to rage deletion.
Retain email based on your requirements, not Google’s. While Google limits deleted email retention to 30 days, you can configure your CrashPlan backups to retain emails as long as needed. And if you put a user on legal hold, you can retain all their emails indefinitely. The intuitive search function makes it simple for users to filter and find exactly the emails they need and preview them within the CrashPlan console. You can even export a folder or entire mailbox to a PST file.
Google’s native capabilities for file restoration are extremely limited. Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets have some automatic versioning, which can be helpful when working with a single document. But if you need to roll back multiple documents or other file types stored in your Google Drive to a specific point in time, you’re out of luck. Overwritten files are gone forever, and deleted files are removed after 30 days. CrashPlan for Google Workspace closes all these gaps and allows you to search for exactly the files you need and restore them to the same location or a different one with just a few clicks.
No, Google does not provide backups of your Google Workspace data. Google follows a shared responsibility model, similar to other SaaS providers. That means they are focused on redundancy and service availability in the event of service outages or hardware failures. But longer-term data retention and protection are the customer’s responsibility. Deleted items in Gmail and Google Drive are typically retained in the trash for 30 days and then permanently deleted, leaving organizations vulnerable to permanent data loss caused by malicious deletion, user error, data corruption, or ransomware.
Third-party backup solutions like CrashPlan create independent copies of your data in a separate location, with customizable frequency and retention policies to help you meet your organization’s unique Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives. In addition, a true backup solution offers a variety of additional features that help you stay compliant with data regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and more. This includes role-based access control, eDiscovery and legal hold capabilities, and data encryption.
Google Vault is an archiving and eDiscovery tool designed to help organizations find and export data for compliance and legal purposes. It does not create separate copies of data, but rather applies longer retention policies to existing Google Workspace data. Restoring data from Google Vault requires admins to search for relevant text and export results to an ediscovery solution. A true backup solution is focused on point-in-time restoration back to the user’s mailbox or Google Drive. It supports support day-to-day productivity as well as larger-scale disaster recovery.
CrashPlan employs a multi-layered security approach to protect your data. All data is encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2 and at rest with AES 256-bit encryption. The backup data is stored in a virtually air-gapped environment within the Azure cloud, ensuring isolation from potential threats. Access to backups is controlled through role-based access controls and integration with identity providers like Google Cloud Identity. Additionally, CrashPlan supports multi-factor authentication and provides detailed audit logs to monitor access and changes, aligning with zero-trust security principles.
Yes. CrashPlan automatically backs up Gmail and Google Drive data at customizable intervals, allowing you to recover emails and files even after they have been permanently deleted from Google Workspace. You can perform point-in-time restores, retrieving data as it existed at a specific moment so you can recover from accidental deletions, data corruption, or malicious activities.
CrashPlan for Google Workspace is available for organizations with a minimum of 50 users and is priced per user. To obtain detailed pricing information and discuss your needs, you can fill out our contact form here.
CrashPlan stores your Google Workspace backup data in the Azure cloud. Additional storage locations are on our product roadmap.
CrashPlan offers customizable retention policies, allowing organizations to define how long backup data is retained based on your specific needs and compliance requirements. You can set policies to retain data for specific durations or indefinitely, enabling you to meet your company’s regulatory compliance needs and internal data governance policies.
Yes. CrashPlan allows you to back up data from suspended or deleted Google accounts, ensuring that you retain access to critical information even after an employee leaves the organization. This allows you to maintain data continuity and support legal or compliance-related data preservation requirements.
Absolutely. CrashPlan provides an intuitive self-service interface that enables end-users to search for and restore their own emails and files without needing to contact IT support. This feature empowers users to quickly recover from data loss incidents, reducing downtime and alleviating the burden on IT departments.
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