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:

The following Calendar items are skipped, due to Google Calendar API limitations:

The following Contacts items are skipped, due to Google People API limitations:

What items can be recovered?

The following items can be recovered from a mailbox backup:

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

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Selecting mailboxes

Recovering mailboxes and mailbox items