Find out what's new in the latest version of CloudM Backup.
Backup 1.8 (January 08th 2025)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Backup & Restoration of Google Calendars |
We have added Google Calendars as a Google Workspace item able to be backed up and restored, alongside mail and drive. Events from all calendars (primary and secondary) can be backed up and will create a new secondary calendar in Google, where events can then be restored back to whichever destination calendar they’d like. |
Improvements/Bug Fixes:
- Improvements to the UI and messaging, for example giving more detailed system messages when expected behaviour occurs, like restorations failing prior to an initial backup being complete and making item counts more clear in certain scenarios.
Backup 1.7 (September 25th 2024)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Enhancements to Backup Statistics (Backup Dashboard) |
A new revamped Backup dashboard to comply with NIS2 regulations. Customers face increased demands for auditability and reporting. The new dashboard improves depth of information, presentation, exportability of data and introduces health indicators; highlighting backups that may need attention. |
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| Display Restoration Progress |
Previously, on the Restoration Status page, an 'in progress' restore, would only show how many items had been restored so far. However, it wouldn't tell you how many items were left. Now the UI will show how many items are left to restore, displaying a count of "40/520" items restored, for example. |
Improvements/Bug Fixes:
- Improvements to the backend in how we handle restores if an initial backup has failed and delta backups, within 30 minutes of an item getting deleted.
- Significant technical debt has been cleared, with old Cloud Functions being removed, as well as unused code.
- Ensuring customers have either the autoclass or standard classes of GCP buckets configured before connecting to the system, with relevant accompanying messaging in the UI.
Backup 1.6 (July 2nd 2024)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Search by File ID Filter for Drive and Shared Drive Restorations |
The addition of 'File ID' to the 'Search Filters' drop-down when restoring a Drive or Shared Drive. This enhancement allows you to filter by File ID, making it easier to locate specific documents using this unique identifier. You can now easily find a document by entering its unique File ID. Please note that due to the precise nature of this search, other filters cannot be used simultaneously when searching by File ID. |
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| Improved Full Restoration Options for Shared Drives. |
Previously, when fully restoring a Shared Drive, it had to be restored into a brand new Shared Drive. Now, similar to item restoration, you have the option to restore into the original, another, or a new Shared Drive. Please note that Google has a nesting limit of up to 20 levels of nested folders for Shared Drives. Your restoration may fail if it creates nesting beyond this level. See here for further details. |
Improvements/Bug Fixes:
- Improved messaging when running multiple full-user restorations to make it clear these users are going to be restored back to the original user.
- Upgraded our infrastructure to run on the latest version of Cloud Functions.
Backup 1.5 (April 24th 2024)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Folder Restoration |
When you now go to run an Item Restoration for a user or Shared Drive you will see a point-in-time folder structure view, similar to if a user was viewing their Drive. You can adjust the date and time to view the historic folder structure. You now can view and restore all or some of a folder(s) contents directly back to Google Workspace. You can also now restore a single folder and multiple folders or a combination of individual items and folders. |
Backup 1.4 (Automate release 2.11.0) (March 6th 2024)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Domain Wide Delegated Service account. |
As we are handling an ever growing amount of user data and to continue to provide a robust and scalable solution, we now require customers to provide us with their own GCP Service Account with domain wide delegated access into their Google Workspace tenant, to ensure we do not hit Google Workspace API Limitations.
Please see this Knowledge Base article to guide you through the required scopes and what action you will need to take. |
Backup 1.4 (January 17th 2024)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Item restoration |
Ability to restore an individual backed up item directly to GWS. |
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| Backup stats in Dashboard |
Small addition to Backup statistics in the CloudM Automate Dashboard - we are now displaying the total number of Users/Shared Drives next to "Users with Policy" and "Shared Drives with Policy" |
Improvements/Bug Fixes:
- Improved handling of dependencies within interfaces to optimise performance of delta backups.
- Expanded usage statistics to enhance our monitoring capabilities.
Backup 1.3.1 (November 15th 2023)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Backup into AWS |
Option to configure Amazon S3 as a storage destination for Backup. |
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| 'Purge Backup' step in offboarding | A new ‘Purge Backup’ step in CloudM Offboarding that triggers backup purge after x days. By default the number of days we wait before backup is purged is set to 30 days but the timeframe is customisable. If a customer also has an Archive step we will make sure Archive happens first before the Purge Backup step. |
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| Paused delta backups | When a delta backup fails 5 times in a row we will:
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| Audit logs | An audit log entry is added when a user views a backed up user or Shared Drive in the 'Item restoration' section. An audit log entry is added when a user downloads any backed up item(s) - Mail, Drive or Shared Drive. |
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| Backup stats | New stats added to the Home page within CloudM Automate. When clicked, the first two in the list will open a slide out bar which will show a list of users/Shared Drives with policy, the rest will link to the Backup Status section for more detail. The Backup Status section will only be visible if the user has the 'View backup status of user' permission. |
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Improvements/Bug Fixes:
- Added Deletion Prevention on our Datastores
- Updated development platform to latest version .NET 8
- Updated NuGet package versions in Backup APIs
- Enhanced unit tests
- Increased the Retry Backoff for reading Shared Drive permissions to prevent quota issues in the Drive API
Backup 1.2 (September 27th 2023)
| Enhancements | Description | Links to article(s) in Knowledge Base |
| Default shared drives policy |
Ability for users to:
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All impacted KB articles have been updated: |
| Ability to view and restore own backups | Users can view and restore their own backups of mail and drive data. | How to view and restore your own backups |
| Manual purge | Allows manual purging of backed up data of users and Shared Drives that no longer have an active backup policy and the data is within retention period. | How to purge backups |
| Ability to see who has Backup enabled within CloudM Automate | Any user with a completed initial backup will have the 'Has Backup' flag set to Yes in the Directory within CloudM Automate (indicated by a tickbox). | How to see who has backup enabled |
Improvements/Bug Fixes:
- Performance of backend services
- Failure handling for initial backups - introduced automated retries for items that fail to back up.