Excluding an Individual Group from Google Drive Backup Content

You can manually remove individual user groups from Google Drive backup content using the Exclude Content configuration wizard. When you exclude an user group, backup jobs no longer run on the users in the user group.

Start the Configuration Wizard

1. From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Google Workspace.

   The Google Workspace Overview page appears.

2. On the Apps tab, click the Google Drive app.

   The Overview page of the app appears.

Configure Content

1. On the Content tab, at the upper-right area of the page, click Add.

   The Configure Content page appears.

2. Select Exclude content from backup, and then click NEXT.

   The Type page of Exclude Content configuration wizard appears.

Select the Content Type

1. Under Advanced, select Groups.

2. Click NEXT.

   The Content page of the configuration wizard appears.

Select the User Groups

1. Select the user groups that you want to exclude from backups.

2. Click NEXT.

   The Google Workspace Plan page of the configuration wizard appears.

Google Workspace Plan

1. From the Google Workspace plan list, select a plan.

2. Click NEXT.

   The Summary page of the configuration wizard appears.

Summary

1. Review the summary.

2. Click SUBMIT.