How to restore Gmail – Gmail recovery made easy

Restore Gmail?

Gmail recovery: Restore Gmail the native way

If you do not have G Suite backup, your recovery options are time-bound.

• You can restore Gmail only up to 30 days prior.
• Ask the user to check their Trash folder and click the “Move To” icon and select “Inbox”
• Not very intuitive as “Delete forever” is the first option presented.

The not-so-fine print

You CANNOT recover Gmail if any of these conditions are met:

• The email was deleted 30 or more days ago.
• The email was a critical draft that was deleted
• The end user tried to restore their email, but clicked “Delete forever” instead.
• The end user emptied their Trash after deleting the email
• The email is in the user’s Spam folder

So if your colleague accidentally deletes an email, empties Trash to clear up storage, you wouldn’t be able to recover Gmail with any native Google method. Or if a disgruntled employee maliciously deletes a colleague’s email. Or your CEO drafts an important long-drawn company-wide email, and then mistakenly deletes the draft? “Sorry! Your email can’t be recovered. It’s gone forever”

Gmail recovery: Restore Gmail with OpenText Cloudally Backup and Recovery

If you have protected your G Suite data with OpenText Cloudally’s G Suite backup, you can restore Gmails with a couple of clicks. OpenText Cloudally’s G Suite backup and recovery provides cloud-to-cloud automated daily backup of your entire G Suite – Gmail, Team Drives, Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, and Metadata backup. We also free you from any time or storage worries with unlimited storage and unlimited retention included. Our recovery options are flexible and admin-friendly:

• Recover Gmail from any point-in-time with intuitive historical snapshots
• Use advanced search and filter options for granular Gmail recovery
• Restore Gmail to a different user
• Export deleted G Suite items to the storage of your choice.