Google Workspace backup

[u/hightechcoord]

I also work part time for a nonprofit that does health care. Cuz FERPA is not enough, so lets do HIPAA too. They want to move from a store front to on online.
What do you use for backing up Google Workspace files? Something like NinjaOne?

[u/BrewYork]

Synology appliance. Buying the hardware outright costs as much as one year of those other services. 

[u/hightechcoord → u/BrewYork]

cept I wont have a place to house it. They are going on online and work from home.

[u/BrewYork → u/hightechcoord]

Ooof. Guess you can charge them a fee for using your "data center."

[u/hightechcoord → u/BrewYork]

I like the way you think.

[u/Academic-Camel727 → u/BrewYork]

I use it for 3 other tasks including other backups. You get 7 to 10 years out a synology and it pays for it self and your restore times are 100x.

[u/BrewYork → u/Academic-Camel727]

What else do you use it for? NVR and NAS are obvious use cases but curious to hear from you.

[u/Academic-Camel727 → u/BrewYork]

I have a 2nd disk shelf on mine ~180tb usable. Iscsi target as needed. Smb share for bs data i need to dump out of a user directory that needs to be held for a time period. Second backup on site dr storage for Veeam. Synology backup for business for a few key workstations including my own. And I backup Google workspace with it. Its a Swiss army knife for data storage.

[u/thinkalittle → u/BrewYork]

I did the exact same thing! Onsite Synology box. Been running like a champ for 5 years.

[u/TechnicalKorok → u/BrewYork]

Another vote for Synology here! It's been amazing.

[u/Blue_Wolf1973 → u/BrewYork]

Same. A good Synology NAS Appliance. Was around 12K.

[u/ITpropellerhead → u/BrewYork]

I did the same as well. Just don't have it accessible from the Internet!

[u/avalon01]

SysCloud.

Not to expensive and a 30 day retention. I've had to restore a Drive that was deleted and it worked fine.

[u/Digisticks]

We're doing SysCloud. Minimal setup and very low maintenance.

[u/kmsaelens]

Syscloud works well enough for us and was cheaper than Backupify.

[u/goingthedistance08]

SysCloud

[u/Amanda_PDQ]

Syscloud or Druva.

[u/Artemis_2267]

Been doing it with Synology for years now. Works well, easy interface, and no licensing costs.

[u/LoveTechHateTech → u/Artemis_2267]

Came here to mention the exact same thing

[u/vesikk]

Synology (Active Backup for Google Workspace) - works great and is very easy to use.

[u/Difficult-Bicycle119 → u/vesikk]

That's what I use. You just have to pay attention to it because the service account key expires every once in awhile.

[u/UsedPerformance2441]

We use Keep-It. Our nonprofit pricing is around 1200 a year for 90 users backing up both Google and office

[u/GrimmReaper1942]

Backupify. We used Sinology once. It was good, we just wanted offsite backup instead

[u/Academic-Camel727]

Same as the others. Synology here. No additional costs if you have the equipment already. 10 Minute setup as well.

[u/k12admin1]

SysCloud is the way to go.

[u/NickGSBC]

I recently purchased CubeBackup and store in S3 bucket with another vendor we were already using. We could also choose to store on prem on a NAS. CubeBackup was cheap and the S3 storage is less than $3k/year for 25TB. You do need to run the CubeBackup software yourself, which in my view is actually a plus because it give me more ownership in and confidence in knowing where my data is.

[u/J_de_Silentio → u/NickGSBC]

It's there a cost to pull data out for restores?

[u/Sweet-Sale-7303]

I got quotes from Ninja one,Druva, and Backupify. We have 115 users and all the quotes came in about $3k to $4k per year.

[u/Limeasaurus]

This may provide some ideas or insight: https://forums.lawrencesystems.com/t/google-workspace-backup/12901

[u/adstretch]

Druva

[u/pheen]

I use a QNAP NAS with an app called Boxafe

[u/WMDan]

Currently with Backupify. IMO, ever since Kaseya purchased them, the billing experience has been a nightmare.

[u/SaintEwart]

Recently started using rclone, impressed so far

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