Cross-platform & Elastic Data Protection

No, you would use the Microsoft 365 journaling capability to send a copy of every mail sent and received by selected users to Vaultastic.

Yes. Configuring Vaultastic for mail domains hosted on Cloud email services such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace ensures that a physical copy of every mail sent and received is available on the AWS cloud.

This multi-cloud strategy reduces your risk of vendor lock-in as you control your most critical data in an independent infrastructure.

Read More: I already use Microsoft 365 on the cloud. Do I still need a separate archiving solution?

If you are doing this to keep a copy of all your files on OneDrive, consider a safer, more secure, and scalable option like Vaultastic. 

A OneDrive backup to an external hard drive increases data loss, corruption, and tampering risks, rendering the whole solution very risky.

Vaultastic’s cloud-based data archiving solution provides an excellent alternative to back up OneDrive files and reduces risks related to accidental or intentional erasures.

Vaultastic complies with industry regulatory norms and provides exceptionally durable storage to put you at ease.

Learn more here.

The best way to back up one drive is via a periodic sync of the files generated, stored, and modified. Vaultastic can sync files from Onedrive using a complete sync for the first time and then an incremental sync regularly to capture the changes. 

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Having adequate storage in the active user mailbox or OneDrive may not protect your critical data against accidental or intentional erasure, theft, or corruption. 

In addition, Microsoft Office 365 includes archiving capabilities, such as legal hold and retaining deleted items for some time. 

However, it may not provide the level of granularity, searchability, and compliance capabilities that a dedicated data archive solution would offer. 

If your organization has specific regulatory or legal requirements for data retention and archiving, or if you need advanced search and discovery capabilities for historical data across user vaults, it may be beneficial to use a separate data archive solution in addition to Office 365. Learn more here

Yes. You can archive emails only for a selected set of users using the journaling configurations on Microsft 365.

Yes. You can add vaults (corresponding to mailboxes on your MS 365 environment) and import your PST files into these vaults. The email data, once imported, is now available in a search-ready form.

Vaultastic offers role-based access to your archive data.

Depending on your use case, you can enable individual user access, department-level access, or complete auditor-level access.

The Vaultastic app is a cloud web application accessed anywhere using a browser.

Archiving files from OneDrive for Business involves creating a backup copy of the files to separate independent storage on another cloud. 

Vaultastic does this by allowing you to define the files you should archive from the user’s drive based on the date and time and other relevant attributes of the files.

Using the same tools, you can also take regular incremental backups of the files changed between the two backups.

The frequency of archiving files from OneDrive for Business will depend on your organization's specific needs and regulations. 

Since the files on Microsoft OneDrive for Business carry business-critical data generated by users, we recommend a frequent schedule of incremental backups after the entire initial backup.

A daily backup works best.

Yes, you can restore files you have archived from OneDrive for Business. Vaultastic provides a search tool to locate the required files from the backup and then extraction tools to export the selected files.

You can archive file data from user accounts and particular folders from OneDrive for Business. While specifying the job, you can also set the modified or created time. Learn more here.

Vaultastic has no such limitations.

To ensure a complete Microsoft one drive backup of all files, we recommend using Vaultastic:

1. Take a complete office 365 OneDrive backup of all the files for all the users.
2. Now incrementally backup OneDrive files daily to ensure complete capture of all changes and additions on that day.

Using this simple strategy, you can  archive or backup OneDrive for business data to ensure complete redundancy for your critical information. 

Learn more here.

Even though OneDrive is on the cloud, it is not safe from the tampering of files or accidental and intentional file erasures. 

Also, when an employee leaves your organization, how will you preserve the corporate data generated, stored, and used by the employee via OneDrive?

In a regulated industry, you must have an independent backup of all data in separate storage that is safe, secure, and durable.

Hence, regularly backing up all your business-critical data on OneDrive to different cloud storage is advised.

Vaultastic’s robust data protection platform can deliver secure OneDrive file archiving to achieve multi-layered and durable OneDrive file protection.

Vaultastic offers complete and incremental back up of files on OneDrive using automated tools and an operational cloud infrastructure separate from Microsoft.

Amongst file archiving solutions to backup OneDrive files, Vaultastic excels in speed, ease, and cost optimization of storage.

To adhere to the regulatory guidelines for data security, you must ensure a physically separate, secure, and durable copy of all your critical data. 

A robust backup and recovery strategy for OneDrive focuses on archiving the files on OneDrive to independent cloud storage. 

Thus a powerful OneDrive backup and compliance are inextricably linked.

While the traditional popular method is to backup OneDrive files to an external hard drive or backup OneDrive to local drive, these may not be the safest and most secure ways to manage a OneDrive backup.

A cloud backup for OneDrive, like the one offered by Vaulastic, will ensure that you securely and durably preserve your  business-critical file data from OneDrive in an independent store.

We propose using Vaultastic as an add-on to Microsoft OneDrive for business. This simple integration will help you with regular OneDrive backups and ensure you preserve your valuable data on the Vaultastic cloud with 11 9’s durability backed by an in-built disaster recovery site.

Vaultastic is a simple but robust tool supporting the backup and recovery for OneDrive. A single pane of glass administration eases the management of your OneDrive backup and retention strategy.

No, the Vaultastic connector for Hosted Exchange uses the journaling feature of Hosted Exchange to send a copy of every mail sent and received by the selected users to an independent Vaultastic store. This capability does not require any additional software or tool to be installed on the Hosted Exchange setup.

Hosted Exchange, Exchange Online domain administrators have to configure journaling to forward copies of incoming and outgoing mail of the selected or all users to the Vaultastic servers.

Learn more about configuring Office 365 and MS Exchange to archive email to Vaultastic

Vaultastic protects email using the journaling capability of the primary mail platform. This ensures that a copy of every email is sent to Vaultastic in real-time, BEFORE delivery. Thereby ensuring that even if emails are deleted from the primary mailbox, they continue to remain intact on Vaultastic

An IMAP based archiving connector would be periodic and therefore doesn't ensure that all email would be archived.

Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are essential for companies as they store crucial data generated by users. Archiving and backing up this data is vital to ensure its safekeeping and accessibility.

Vaultastic Open Store is the best way to archive files from Google Drive and archive OneDrive for business files. It supports full and incremental syncs of files and offers tools for searching and selectively retrieving files from archives.

Data stored in Vaultastic is protected with multiple layers of security, ensuring its high durability and easy accessibility.

Vaultastic follows strict regulatory guidelines, improving your compliance and legal posture concerning data retention and access.

Learn more here and here.

The best way to archive files in Google Drive is via a periodic, regular sync of the files generated, stored, and modified. Vaultastic can sync Google Drive archive files using a complete sync for the first time and then an incremental sync regularly to capture the changes. 

Learn more here.

If you are doing this to keep a copy of all your files on Google Drive, consider a more secure and durable option like Vaultastic.

Backing up google drive to an external hard drive increases data loss, corruption, fragmentation, and tampering risks, making the solution very risky.

Vaultastic’s cloud-based data archiving solution provides an excellent alternative to back up OneDrive files and reduces risks related to accidental or intentional erasures.

Vaultastic complies with industry regulatory norms and provides exceptionally durable storage to put you at ease.

Learn more here.

No, G Suite administrators would need to configure mail Journaling rules to send copies of incoming and outgoing mail of the selected or all users to Vaultastic.

No, the Vaultastic application is independent of the G Suite interfaces. Depending on the rights assigned by the Vaultastic administrators, end users can access their Vaultastic Vaults through a simple and secure web interface.

To keep the end-user interface simple, all emails are archived in a central repository and accessible to the user via an ediscovery UI. The user can leverage "saved searches" in the ediscovery interface to create any number of virtual folders accessible on a single click

Vaultastic has no knowledge of the folder structure or organization of emails on the primary mailbox.

Separate email archiving for Google Workspace works by configuring journaling on Google Workspace to divert a copy of every inbound and outbound email to a separate cloud archive like Vaultastic. On Vaultastic, the emails are stored in a central repository in a search-ready form, making it easy for organizations to retrieve and review emails as needed. 

A separate email archive independent of the Google Workspace infrastructure can be crucial for meeting regulatory and operational requirements. This independent cloud-based archive provides an added layer of protection and agility for the organization.

You can archive your emails and important files from Google Drive to a separate infrastructure like Vaultastic for added redundancy and flexibility in Google Workspace.

Use journaling on Google Workspace to automatically back up a copy of all emails in real time and periodically sync files from your Google Drive accounts to Vaultastic.

Yes, emails and files are archived in a central repository in Vaultastic. Tools for the ediscovery of emails, searching for files, and extraction help granularly locate emails and files from across vaults and user accounts and extract them to portable formats.

Vaultastic is an elastic GSuite backup solution that can protect your business-critical emails and the files on your Google Drive accounts in a central, unified repository that enables long-term data retention.

Leaving mailboxes and drive accounts of ex-employees disabled on the Primary mail/workplace productivity solution like Google Workspace/G Suite is a standard method but an unnecessary cost.

The best way to protect the data assets of former employees is to archive their emails and files from their mailboxes, and Google Drive accounts to an independent cloud archive like Vaultastic.

The redundancy and centralization assure control and security for your data.

Learn more: Protecting Corporate Data that was in control of Former employees

Yes, and it's a fantastic alternative to using google for employee data retention. 

Instead of saving former employee emails and files from their google drive accounts to a Google Vault charged as archive user licenses, you can save up to 60% or more by protecting this data on Vaultastic.

Besides the massive cost savings, Vaultastic helps you stay compliant with regulations that require you to protect data in independent stores.

Our customers find it easy to perform ediscovery across the vaults and stores of former employees from a single console driving up productivity.

Learn more: Protecting Corporate Data that was in control of Former employees

A google workspace archive license allows you to park ex-employee data in a Google Vault specifically meant for this.

However, the google workspace archive user license cost can be expensive compared to Vaultastic, which optimizes long-term data retention costs to deliver upward of 60% savings. 

Besides cost savings, you benefit from the additional redundancy of having your data in an infrastructure separate from Google Workspace. Also, you improve your compliance postures with an independent archive since that is what regulators expect.  

Our customers find it easy to perform ediscovery across the vaults and stores of former employees from a single console driving up productivity.

Learn more: Protecting Corporate Data that was in control of Former employees.

Yes absolutely.

Vaultastic is a robust email archiving solution for GSuite that protects your critical email data in a perpetual archive in a separate cloud.

Amongst the google email archive solutions, Vaultastic ranks high since it delivers massive cost optimization even as your storage grows, stores your data with high durability and security, and provides flexible tools for discovery and extraction.

A centralized g suite email archive helps faster discovery across user mailboxes/vaults, thus improving response times to data requests.

Vaultastic is the best email archiving solution for G Suite because it delivers complete data life cycle support. 

Vaultastic can archive live email data from your Google Workspace users and centrally protect fragmented legacy data.

As the use and age of data change, Vaultastic provides tools and options to protect and manage the data across its lifecycle.

If you use the paid version of Google Workspace, you can enable journaling for select or all users so that a copy of all their emails is sent to Vaultastic in real time. 

As the live emails get archived to Vaultastic, you can search and recover any email(s) using the ediscovery tool.

Google Vault is a cloud-based archiving and e-discovery solution for G Suite customers. It allows businesses to retain, search, and export data from G Suite services like Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Chat. It is primarily used for e-discovery, legal compliance, and data retention.

Vaultastic is a cloud-based data archiving solution that is a fantastic Google Vault alternative. Data Redundancy, easier ediscovery across user accounts, and up to 60% cost optimization are some of the reasons customers choose Vaultastic to archive google workspace data.

While Vaultastic provides similar data archiving functionality as Google Vault, it is not limited to G Suite users. It can work with various email platforms such as Office 365, Zimbra, and others. Vaultastic also provides additional features like email backup, tamper-proof archiving, and advanced search options.

Vaultastic is a cloud-based data archiving solution allowing businesses to securely archive their email, files, and other digital communication data. It provides archiving solutions for various platforms, including Google Apps and Google Docs.

When Vaultastic is used as a Google Apps or a Google Docs Archive, it integrates with your organization's Google Workspace account and automatically archives all inbound and outbound emails in real time. It uses the Google Journaling capability to capture email data, ensuring nothing is missed. In addition, Vaultastic can all documents, spreadsheets, and other files created or modified in Google Docs from your Google Drive to securely protect them.

The archived data is then stored securely in the cloud and is easily searchable and retrievable using the web-based Vaultastic console.

Vaultastic also provides e-discovery, legal hold, and advanced search capabilities to help organizations comply with regulations and legal requirements. It provides a full-text search of all archived data and advanced search filters to locate specific emails or documents quickly.

Overall, Vaultastic provides a comprehensive and secure email and document archiving solution for businesses that use Google Apps and Google Docs.

If you use the paid version of Google Workspace, you can enable journaling for select or all users so that a copy of all their emails is sent to Vaultastic in real time. 

As the live emails get archived to Vaultastic, you can search and recover any email(s) using the ediscovery tool.

While the traditional popular method is to backup Google Drive files to an external hard drive or backup Google Drive to local drive, these may not be the safest and most secure ways to manage a Google Drive backup.

A cloud backup for Google Drive, like the one offered by Vaulastic, will ensure that you securely and durably preserve your business-critical file data from Google Drive in an independent store.

People often ask, “how to backup my data from google account?”

Emails and Files carry a bulk of your business-critical unstructured data. Ensuring a backup of this data is a great way to backup your google account.

Vaultastic can help you with an independent data archive for all your emails and files from Google drive. 

The backup is automatic, safe, and secure. You are now free from the risk of data deletion and tampering.

Vaultastic is a safe solution to backup your data on google drive. Automated tools for complete and incremental migration of files/documents increase productivity when you backup your google drive data.

Learn more here and here.

Vaultastic is an independent cloud-based solution answering this popular question of how to back up my google drive.

Take complete backups of selected Google Drive accounts and follow this with regular incremental backups to ensure you never lose a file.

Are you still wondering how do I back up my google drive? Learn more about Vaultastic’s file archiving capabilities here.

While the traditional popular method is to backup Google Drive files to hard drive or take a backup from Google Drive to pc, these may not be the safest and most secure ways to manage a Google Drive backup.

A cloud backup for Google Drive, like the one offered by Vaulastic, will ensure that you securely and durably preserve your business-critical file data from Google Drive in an independent store.

A popular question - should you backup google drive?

Another one - Is google drive backed up?

While Google Drive may be inherently reliable, your files are prone to tampering and accidental or intentional erasures by your users, putting your organization at grave risk of data loss.

To ensure business continuity, it’s a good practice to ensure your google drive is backed up regularly to an independent cloud store in immutable secured storage.

While backup google drive locally is a popular option, we recommend not doing this.

On-premise backups have their risks and costs, as explained here. 

Instead, try Vaultastic, a cloud-based elastic archive that can ingest your google drive data completely and incrementally to ensure secure data protection for your critical files. 

Learn more here.

Yes absolutely. To protect against accident or malicious deletion, you must backup your entire google drive data to an independent, secure archive. 

Learn more here.

No, you would use the Google workspace journaling capability to send a copy of every mail sent and received by selected users to Vaultastic.

Yes. Configuring Vaultastic for mail domains hosted on Cloud email services such as Google Workspace (G Suite) ensures that a physical copy of every mail sent and received is available on the AWS cloud. 

This multi-cloud strategy reduces your risk of vendor lock-in as you control your most critical data in an independent infrastructure.

Read More: Optimize costs on G Suite subscriptions – Maintain email data of former employees on inexpensive cloud stores like AWS S3.

Yes. You can archive emails only for a selected set of users using the journaling configurations on Google Workspace (G Suite).

Yes. You can add vaults (corresponding to mailboxes on your Google Workspace environment) and import your PST files into these vaults. The email data, once imported, is now available in a search-ready form.

Vaultastic offers role-based access to your archive data. 

Depending on your use case, you can enable individual user access, department-level access, or complete auditor-level access.

The Vaultastic app is a cloud web application accessed anywhere using a browser.