Google Workspace: Restore Groups Data
Who can use this feature
Anyone with these permissions: Restore groups
When a Google Group is deleted, or its members, roles, or settings are changed by mistake, restoring it from Eon puts the group back as it was in a snapshot. You recover as little as one message or as much as the whole group, without rebuilding anything by hand.
This article explains how to restore a Google Group’s messages, its configuration, or the whole group from an Eon snapshot using the Eon console.
Restore conversations
Restoring conversations brings individual messages from a snapshot back into the group’s archive, or into a mailbox you choose. You restore one message at a time, or select up to 100 messages for one job.
You can restore conversations from the SaaS inventory page in the Eon console.
Before you start
Before you restore conversations, make sure:
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A restore workspace is connected for the source workspace the group was backed up from. For instructions, see Google Workspace: Connect Restore Workspaces.
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To restore messages into the group’s archive, the delegated admin is a super admin, with the Groups Migration API enabled.
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At least one of the group’s subscribers was backed up, because Eon backs up a group’s messages from the copies in its members’ mailboxes. For how Eon backs up group messages, see Backup support notes in Google Workspace Support.
Select the snapshot and the messages to restore
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Open the source workspace the group was backed up from.
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Navigate to Groups in the side menu, click the group’s row, and then click Conversations.
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Eon preselects the newest snapshot. To restore from a different one, click the snapshot date. In the popover, select Specific snapshot, choose the day on the calendar, select a snapshot from that day’s list, and then click Select.
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Choose the messages to restore:
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One message: Hover over the message’s row, and then click (Restore).
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Several messages: Select the checkbox on each message, and then click the button that shows the number of selected messages, such as Restore 3 messages. Checkboxes appear only when a specific snapshot is selected. To start over, click Clear.
The Restore to Google Workspace panel opens.
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Choose the restore workspace
Choose the restore workspace you want to restore to.
Restore Account lists the connected restore workspaces as cards.
Choose where the messages go
In Restore Configuration, set Destination:
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Group archive: Eon inserts the messages back into the group’s conversation archive. Eon can’t remove them afterward.
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Different mailbox: Enter the address of the mailbox to import the messages into. To mark the restored messages, turn Add a custom label on and enter a label name. When you leave the name blank, Eon uses
Eon Restored.
When the snapshot recorded no address for the group, only a mailbox destination is available.
Start the job and monitor it
Click Restore, then track the job from View job, or from the Restore jobs tab on the Jobs page.
When the job completes, the messages are in the group archive or in the mailbox you chose.
Restore group configuration
Restoring a group’s configuration restores its name, members, roles, and settings from the snapshot you choose. Restoring a group’s configuration is the same as restoring the group with Include archived messages off. To restore messages too, restore the whole group with Include archived messages on. If the group no longer exists, Eon creates it again.
Restoring a group’s configuration makes the live group match the snapshot. Members added since the snapshot are removed, missing members are re-added, and roles and settings are reset to their snapshot values. Eon skips members whose users were deleted.
You can restore a group’s configuration from the SaaS inventory page in the Eon console.
Before you start
Before you restore a group’s configuration, make sure a restore workspace is connected for the source workspace the group was backed up from. For instructions, see Google Workspace: Connect Restore Workspaces.
Select the snapshot and the group configuration
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Open the source workspace the group was backed up from.
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Navigate to Groups in the side menu, and then click the group’s row to open it.
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Eon preselects the newest snapshot. To restore from a different one, click the snapshot date. In the popover, select Specific snapshot, choose the day on the calendar, select a snapshot from that day’s list, and then click Select.
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Hover over Group Configuration, and then click (Restore). The Restore to Google Workspace panel opens.
Choose the restore workspace
Choose the restore workspace you want to restore to.
Restore Account lists the connected restore workspaces as cards.
Confirm the group
In Restore Configuration, confirm the group name and email to make sure you’re restoring the right group.
Start the job and monitor it
Click Restore, then track the job from View job, or from the Restore jobs tab on the Jobs page.
When the job completes, the group has the name, members, roles, and settings it had in the snapshot.
Restore a group
Restoring a group restores its name, members, roles, and settings from the snapshot you choose. You can also restore the messages in the group’s archive. If the group no longer exists, Eon creates it again.
Restoring a group makes the live group match the snapshot. Members added since the snapshot are removed, missing members are re-added, and roles and settings are reset to their snapshot values. Eon skips members whose users were deleted.
You can restore a group from the SaaS inventory page in the Eon console.
Before you start
Before you restore a group, make sure:
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A restore workspace is connected for the source workspace the group was backed up from. For instructions, see Google Workspace: Connect Restore Workspaces.
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To restore messages into the group’s archive with Include archived messages, the delegated admin is a super admin, with the Groups Migration API enabled. Restoring only a group’s configuration doesn’t need this.
Select the group and the snapshot
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Open the source workspace the group was backed up from.
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Navigate to Groups in the side menu.
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Hover over the group’s row, and then click (Restore). The Restore to Google Workspace panel opens on Choose Snapshot.
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In Choose Snapshot, choose the month, select the tab of the vault that holds the snapshot, and then select the snapshot in the Snapshot time (UTC) table. Eon preselects the newest snapshot, so you can click Next to keep it.
Choose the restore workspace
Choose the restore workspace you want to restore to.
Restore Account lists the connected restore workspaces as cards.
Choose whether to restore messages
In Restore Configuration, confirm the group name and email. Under Restore Scope, turn Include archived messages on to also restore the group’s messages from the snapshot. Eon inserts them into the group archive and can’t remove them afterward.
The switch is unavailable when the snapshot recorded no address for the group, because Eon can’t restore a group’s messages without it.
Start the job and monitor it
Click Restore, then track the job from View job, or from the Restore jobs tab on the Jobs page.
When the job completes, the group has the name, members, roles, and settings it had in the snapshot. If you turned Include archived messages on, the group’s messages are in its archive.