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# Google Workspace: Restore Groups Data

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:

* A restore workspace is connected for the source workspace the group was backed up from.
  For instructions, see [Google Workspace: Connect Restore Workspaces].

* To restore messages into the group's archive, the delegated admin is a super admin, with the Groups Migration API enabled.

* 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

1. Open the source workspace the group was backed up from.

2. Navigate to **Groups** in the side menu, click the group's row, and then click **Conversations**.

3. 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**.

4. Choose the messages to restore:

   * **One message**: Hover over the message's row, and then click ** (Restore)**.

   * **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.

#### 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**:

* **Group archive**: Eon inserts the messages back into the group's conversation archive.
  Eon can't remove them afterward.

* **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.

> **Warning**
>
> 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

1. Open the source workspace the group was backed up from.

2. Navigate to **Groups** in the side menu, and then click the group's row to open it.

3. 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**.

4. 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.

> **Warning**
>
> 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:

* A restore workspace is connected for the source workspace the group was backed up from.
  For instructions, see [Google Workspace: Connect Restore Workspaces].

* 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

1. Open the source workspace the group was backed up from.

2. Navigate to **Groups** in the side menu.

3. Hover over the group's row, and then click ** (Restore)**.
   The **Restore to Google Workspace** panel opens on **Choose Snapshot**.

4. 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.

## See also

* [Restore Google Workspace data]

* [Google Workspace Support]

* [Google Workspace: Connect Restore Workspaces]

* [Restore Job Statuses]

[Google Workspace: Connect Restore Workspaces]: /data-protection/saas-workloads/google-workspace/connections/connect-restore-workspaces

[Restore Google Workspace data]: /data-protection/restoring/restore-saas-applications/restore-google-workspace/overview

[Google Workspace Support]: /data-protection/saas-workloads/google-workspace/google-workspace

[Backup support notes]: /data-protection/saas-workloads/google-workspace/google-workspace#backup-support-notes

[Restore Job Statuses]: /data-protection/restoring/restore-job-statuses