Active Backup for Google Workspace

Synology
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Hi all,

decided to do a Google universal backup recently. Started following the steps in https://kb.synology.com/en-ph/DSM/tutorial/Preparing_Google_for_using_ABG, didn’t go very far though as I cannot connect to the Google Admin Console as suggested. I am asked to connect with a admin account.

Anyone knows how to proceed?

Thank you,
E.

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Do you have the admin account of the Google Workspace you attempt to back up?

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Thank you for getting back to me Paul.

No I don’t. I think I am confusing my personal Google account with the account of the corresponding Google Workspace admin. I’m just a home user, not part of a company.

Should I create a seperate admin account from my personal Google account? And how would I do that?

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I have not tried this but I assume that with a personal Google account, that account is the admin of your (personal) Google Workspace. Have you tried that?

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I have but it just returns me to the login page (tried with different browsers). Actually they explicitly state the admin account is not a google email.

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Hi,
my understanding is that you are trying to use Active Backup for Google Workspace which is designed to backup a business account at Google. If you don’t have a business Google Workspace account but want to backup your personal Google account, use Cloud Sync from the Package Center to sync your Google account and than use HyperBackup on a regular basis to backup the sync copy of your Google account.

You could sync many Google account to specific directory.

That is how I proceed.

I also use Active Backup for Microsoft 365 to backup Office 365 Business acount, I did not try the Active Backup for Google Workspace, if it works like the AB for MS 365 it is backup solution on its own.

Regards
Ben

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Thank you so much Ben.

I see that through Cloud Sync I can only backup my Google Drive, not my actual account (mail, calendar, contacts etc.).

Also, off topic, but do you happen to know a way to backup the Apple iCloud?

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Yes that is true. AB for Office 365 does backip mail, calendar and contact… I guess that AB for Google Workspace would do de same.

Don’t know about iCloud, if it was easy, I guess Synology would have include it.

Ben