In addition to the performance metrics, the tools were evaluated based on the vendor background and history.

Each solution was assigned a (somewhat subjective) grade reflecting the accuracy of restore and backup management features. Measured as the average restore speed for one G Suite user backup with 4 GB of data in Gmail and 15 GB in Google Drive. During the first backup all protected data has to be pulled from Google Workspace accounts, which takes more time to execute compared to subsequent 'incremental' backups which only need to sync data changes (increments) since the last backup. The average speed of the initial (first) backup. It is calculated as the number of successful backup runs divided by the total backup runs. It takes into account all Google Drive and G Suite Gmail backup runs during the 2 test weeks. In order to compare the solutions we summarized these four key measures for each solution: The following recovery benchmarks were then calculated for each solution: number of total backup jobs, how many of them failed and how many succeeded.įinally, Google Drive and Google Workspace (G Suite) user email backups were restored to the same test domain to measure the speed and accuracy of recovery. The backup tools performed automated (scheduled) backups of the entire test domain for 2 weeks. The test domain had 2 TB in total storage across all users and included a representative set of files and emails: large 10GB+ media files, large number of small text files (source code) as well as native Google Workspace (G Suite) files such as documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Each G Suite (Google Workspace) backup tool included in the review was installed on a test domain with 80 users and 20 Shared (Team) Drives by one of Afi managed service provider partners.

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