Setting up Gmail protection with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
To protect user's data in your Gmail environment using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection, you need to add and set up a Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Gmail connector based on your backup requirements.
You must know the following before adding a connector:
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See Prerequisites to setup Gmail protection with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection.
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Emails: All emails in the Gmail account, including inbox messages, sent items, drafts, and archived emails.
Attachments: Attachments associated with emails.
Labels and Folders: Labels and folders.
Deleted Emails: Deleted emails.
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Backup all or specific user's data
An option to back up all or specific users' data.
Exclude specific users
An option to exclude certain users from the backup by adding their email addresses to the excluded users list.
Backup of Deleted and Spam folder
An option to include or exclude deleted items and the items in the Spam folder.
Each tab in the connector creation workflow includes a help icon (?) on the left. Click this icon to open the corresponding help topic for that tab, which guides you through the setup process step by step.
Important: If group email addresses are added to the scope for specific users, the connector will retrieve the users in the group and back up their data. Similarly, group email addresses added to the Excluded Users scope will also be processed in the same manner.
Procedure:
- Access the Administration portal and select the connector type.
Access the Administration portal.
Click Connectors on the Backup card.
Click New backup connector.
Click Gmail.
- On the General tab, set up the basic configuration for the connector.
- On the Capture scope tab, configure backup scope.
- On the Credentials tab, do the following:
Admin User SMTP
Enter the SMTP address of an administrator user that is used for obtaining lists of drives, and so on.
Credentials JSON
Copy the content from a JSON file, which is generated as part of the prerequisites.
- Click Next.
- On the Policy configuration tab, configure backup policy.
- On the Scheduling tab, schedule when the backup job should run.
See Schedule a backup.
- On the Email notifications tab, configure email addresses to receive notifications about backup activities.
- On the Review tab, save the settings and initiate the backup.