Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud provides the possibility to protect your Google Workspace data. To learn more about the full scope of this feature, the required user rights and the limitations, check the product documentation here.
In this article, the process of adding a Google Workspace organization to the Cyber Protection service is shown along with what you need to do before adding the organization.
Prerequisites
Before you add the Google Workspace organization to the Cyber Protection service, you need to do the following:
Create a new Google Cloud project
Enable the required APIs for this project
Configure the credentials for this project
Grant the new project access to your Google Workspace account
From the navigation menu in the Google Cloud Platform, select IAM & Admin > Service Accounts.
In the list, find the service account that you created, and then copy its client ID that is shown in the OAuth 2.0 Client ID column:
Sign in to the Google Admin console (admin.google.com) as a Super Administrator.
From the navigation menu, select Security > Access and data control > API controls:
Scroll down the API controls page, and then under Domain-wide delegation, click Manage domain-wide delegation:
The Domain-wide delegation page opens.
On the Domain-wide delegation page, click Add new
The Add a new client ID window opens:
In the Client ID field, enter the client ID of your service account client.
In the OAuth scopes field, add the following scopes:
After you have created a personal Google Cloud project, you need to link the project you have created earlier to the Cyber Protection service to back up the data. Please do the following steps:
Sign in to the service console as a company administrator.
Click Devices > Add > Google Workspace:
Enter the email address of a Super Administrator of your Google Workspace account.
For this procedure, it is irrelevant whether 2-Step Verification is enabled for the Super Administrator email account.
Browse for the JSON file that contains the private key of the service account that you created in your Google Cloud project:
You can also paste the file content as text.
Click Confirm.
As a result, your Google Workspace organization appears under the Devices tab in the service console.