The Best Cloud Backup Solution for Your Google Drive

Search by user

Administrators can easily locate Google Drive and shared drive files in the backup archives for each user.

Administrators can easily locate Drive files in the backup archives for each user.

Administrators can easily locate Drive files in the backup archives for each user within the past 100 versions. If the file is more than 100 versions old, the user must look for it in a separate 'Lost and Found' archive.

Administrators can easily locate Google Drive files in the backup archives for each user.

Administrators can easily locate files in the Google Drive backup archives for each user.

Administrators can easily locate Google Drive files in the backup archives for each user.

Granular search filters

Locate Drive files in the archives using identifiers such as the document name, document ID, create date, folder name, or shared with me/owned by me.

Users can use advanced filter options to locate files in the Google Drive archive.

We do not have information on SpinOne's capability to perform a granular search for Google Drive.

Backupify allows users to search the Google Drive archive using metadata such as file name, post, and date.

Users can search the Google Drive archive using filters such as document name, author name, or date filters.

Spanning allows users to search the Google Drive archive using metadata such as title/name, user, date, etc.

Keyword-based content search 

SysCloud supports full-text search capability for file content in Google Drive.

We do not have information on Afi’s capability to perform full-text search for Google Drive.

We do not have information on SpinOne's capability to perform content search.

Backupify does not support content search for Google Drive files. Source

We do not have information on CloudAlly's capability to perform content search.

We do not have information on Spanning's capability to perform content search.  

Archive Location

SysCloud allows customers to choose between the US, Canada, UK, and Australia regions to store their archive data. SysCloud allows customers to choose between the US, Canada, UK, and Australia regions to store their archive data. SysCloud allows customers to choose between the US, Canada, UK, and Australia regions to store their archive data.

Afi allows customers to choose between United States (Iowa), the European Union (the Netherlands), Britain, Canada, and Australia

SpinOne allows customers to choose between the US, Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia regions to store their archive data.

Backupify allows customers to choose between the US (Pennsylvania), Canada (Toronto), United Kingdom (London), Germany(Munich), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

CloudAlly allows customers to choose between the US, European Union, and Australia.

Spanning lets customers choose between the US and Europe to store their archive data.

Ransomware threats | Ability to identify ransomware in Google Drive files.

SysCloud scans for ransomware threats in Google Drive and shared drive backup archives and flags potential ransomware threats via the dashboard.

Afi scans for ransomware in the Google Drive backup archives and sends instant email notifications to admins. It also preserves the last clean version of the data in case of ransomware encryption.

SpinOne scans Google Drive files for ransomware and flags potential ransomware threat via the dashboard.

We do not have information on Backupify’s capabilities to detect ransomware threats.

We do not have information on CloudAlly’s capabilities to detect ransomware threats.

We do not have information on Spanning’s capabilities to detect ransomware threats.

Privacy and Compliance | Ability to identify sensitive data including PCI, HIPAA, to name a few, in the Drive backup archives. .

SysCloud scans for any sensitive data in Google Drive and shared drive backup archives and notifies the administrator.

We do not have information on Afi’s capabilities to detect privacy and compliance violations in the Google Drive backup archives.

SpinOne scans for any sensitive data in the Google Drive backup archives and notifies the administrator.

We do not have information on Backupify’s capabilities to detect privacy and compliance violations in the Google Drive backup archives.

We do not have information on CloudAlly’s capabilities to detect privacy and compliance violations in the Google Drive backup archives.

We do not have information on Spanning’s capabilities to detect privacy and compliance violations in the Google Drive backup archives.

Backup Status

The dashboard provides a complete backup health report for the past 30 days. Admins can drill-down to see the number of in-progress and completed backup jobs for the domain

The dashboard has a backup status widget that shows the backup health status for the past week along with any backup failures and errors.

The dashboard provides daily backup status as well as the backup status for the last 14 days

The dashboard displays the number of backups that are in progress.

The dashboard displays the backup status for each user and service along with the time of the last backup.

Spanning provides a daily status notification and an audit log that tracks backup status.

Restore Status

The dashboard provides a complete restore health report for the past 90 days. Admins can drill-down to see the number of in-progress and completed restore requests.

The dashboard has a restore status widget that shows the restore health status for the past week along with any restore failures and errors.

The dashboard does not provide restore status. The "Activity" tab shows the restore history for the past 14 days. Source

The dashboard displays the number of restores in progress.

The dashboard displays the restore status of all the jobs started in the past 7 days

The 'Restore' tab displays the status of ongoing restores.

Export Status

The dashboard provides a complete health report on export requests for the past 90 days. Admins can drill down to see the number of in-progress and completed export requests.

The dashboard has an export status widget that shows the export health status for the past week along with any export failures and errors.

The dashboard does not provide the export/download status. Source

The dashboard displays the number of exports in progress

The dashboard provides the export status of all the jobs started in the past 7 days.

Spanning displays export status of ongoing exports in the 'Restore' tab.

No. of Items Backed up

Admins can see the number of items backed up in each service in a single page.

Afi has a “data dynamics” widget that shows the number of items backed up for each service for the past seven days

Admins can see the number of items backed up for each service on the dashboard.

Backupify displays the number of files backed up for each Google Workspace app.

We do not have information on how CloudAlly shows no. of items backed up.

Spanning displays the number of items under each user in the dashboard.

Total Backup Size

The dashboard displays the total storage consumed by each service in the domain.

The dashboard shows the total storage the backup occupies for each domain.

The dashboard displays the total storage used in addition to the storage consumed by each service in the domain.

The dashboard provides the total size of the backup archives for each app or for the whole domain.

The total size of the backup archive is displayed for each user.

Spanning shows the total size of the data in the dashboard.

Audit-Logs

Admins can view audit reports for all the backup, restore, and export events.

Admins can view audit reports for all the backup, restore, and export events.

Admins can view audit reports for all the backup, restore, and export events.

Admins can view audit reports for all the backup, restore, and export events.

Admins can view audit reports for all the backup, restore, and export events.

Admins can view audit reports for all the backup, restore, and export events.

Configurable Reports by Email

Not available

Afi offers admins the option to receive daily, weekly, or monthly reports.

SpinOne provides admins the option to receive email reports weekly or monthly.

We do not have information on Backupify’s capability to send configurable email reports.

We do not have information on CloudAlly’s capability to send configurable email reports.

Spanning sends daily, weekly, or monthly reports to the admins.

App-level Restore & Export Reports

Admins can access app-level reports on restore & export.

We do not have information on Afi’s capability to provide app-level restore & export reports.

SpinOne provides app level restore and export reports.

Restore and export status are displayed on the "Restores" and "Exports" tabs respectively.

We do not have information on CloudAlly’s capability to provide app-level restore & export reports.

We do not have information on Spanning’s capability to provide app-level restore & export reports.   

SOC II Type 2 Audited

Yes

Yes

We do not have information on whether SpinOne is SOC II Type 2 certified.

Yes

We do not have information on whether CloudAlly is SOC II Type 2 certified.

Yes

Virtual Private Cloud

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

AES Encryption

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

TLS Security Encryption

Yes

Yes

We do not have information on whether SpinOne uses TLS security Ecryption.

Yes

We do not have information on whether CloudAlly uses TLS security Ecryption.

Yes

3x Backup/Day | Ability to back up Google Drive 3 times a day and access multiple snapshots.

SysCloud provides 1x/day backup.

Afi provides up to 3x backup/day

Admins can configure daily 1x or 3x backup.

"Backupify takes 3 daily backups and retains them for 30 days. After 30 days, the system saves one of those three daily backups per user. After 90 days, the system saves one weekly backup per user. After one year, Backupify saves one monthly backup per user."

We do not have information on the option to perform 3x backup/day.

Spanning provides only 1x/day backup.

Content-Based Inclusion/Exclusion | Filter Google Drive data based on the content format or file size before starting the backup.

Admins can exclude Google Drive data to be backed up based on the file type or size.

We do not have information on Afi’s capability to perform content-based inclusion and exclusion before starting the backup.

SpinOne does not support content-based inclusion/ exclusion. Source

We do not have information on Backupify’s capability to perform content-based inclusion or exclusion for Google Drive.

We do not have information on CloudAlly’s capability to perform content-based inclusion and exclusion for Google Drive.

We do not have information on Spanning’s capability to perform content-based inclusion and exclusion for Google Drive.

Auto Backup New Users | Automatically identify and add new Google Workspace users to the backup.

Admins have the option to automatically protect new users added to Google Workspace.

Afi provides admins the option to automatically back up new users and drives added to Google Workspace.

We do not have information on SpinOne's capability to automatically back up new users.

Backupify lets admins automatically add new Google Workspace user to their current backup schedules. You can also set limits to the auto-add user feature. Upon breaching the limit, new users will not be added to the backup schedule and an email notification will be sent to the account admin.

CloudAlly provides admins the option to automatically protect new users added to Google Workspace.

Spanning allows admins to either automatically assign new licenses for new users, or purchase licenses for new users.

Point-in-Time Restore | Restore a previous version of a Google Drive file.

Admins can restore multiple versions of the Google Drive files from the backup archives.

Admins can perform a PIT restore. But we do not have information on which services have the point-in-time restore option.

Admins can restore multiple versions of the Google Drive files from the archives.

Backupify supports versioning and snapshots for Google Drive files.

CloudAlly supports PIT restore for Google Drive files.

Admins can restore a point-in-time version of a Google Drive file.

Hold Backup for Suspended Users | Retain the backup archive of a user deleted or suspended from Google Workspace.

Admins can define the retention period for deleted/suspended users as unlimited or customized periods.

Admins can retain data for archived (suspended or deleted) users at no cost.

We do not have information on SpinOne's capability to hold backup for suspended users.

Backupify holds the suspended and deleted user data if a license is assigned to the user.

We do not have information on CloudAlly’s capability to retain backed up data for suspended accounts.

Spanning holds the suspended and deleted user data if a license is assigned to the user.

Configurable Retention Period | Configure data retention based on users, organizational units, and domains.

Admins can configure unlimited or customized data retention periods at the user level, OU level, and domain level.

The app provides an unlimited retention period by default, and they are not configurable by the customer. We do not have information on Afi’s capability to configure retention period.

We do not have information on SpinOne's capability to define retention period for archived data.

Backupify allows users to set a custom retention period in the retention settings page.

CloudAlly provides unlimited retention periods by default. Retention period can be configured only by raising a support ticket.

Spanning allows admins to configure retention policy individually for each app, including Google Drive.

End-User Self-Service Recovery

Admins can authorize users to restore their own Google Drive files.

Admins can authorize users to restore their own Google Drive files.

We do not have information on SpinOne's capability to authorize end users to restore their own Google Drive files.

We do not have information on Backupify’s capabilities to authorize users to restore their own Drive files.

Admins can authorize users to restore their Google Drive files.

Admins can authorize users to restore their Google Drive files.

Offline Export

SysCloud provides offline export for Google Drive files.

We do not have information on Afi’s capability to perform offline export.

SpinOne provides offline export for Drive files.

We do not have information on Backupify’s capability to perform offline export. 

CloudAlly offers offline export for Drive files.

Spanning offers offline export for Drive files.

Cross-User Restore

Admins can restore the Google Drive data to the same user or a different user in the domain with sharing permissions and folder structure intact.

Admins can restore Google Drive data to the same user or a different user in the same domain with sharing permissions and folder structure intact.

Admins can restore Google Drive data to the same user or a different user in the same domain.

Admins can restore Google Drive files to the same user or a different user in the same domain.

Admins can restore Google Drive files to the same user or another user in the same domain.

Admins can restore Google Drive files to the same user or another user in the same domain.