Afi SaaS Backup vs GMvault

Afi SaaS Backup is a web service for protecting Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 data. Covered workloads include Gmail, Drive, Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. Automated backups run multiple times daily, with point-in-time recovery, unlimited retention and item-level or account restoration. Full-text search, content preview and offline export use native formats. Afi describes AI-based ransomware detection, preemptive backups, clean recovery-point labels and immutable storage. Security includes TLS 1.3 in transit, AES 256-bit encryption at rest and customer-managed keys through Google, AWS and Azure KMS. The service lists SOC 2 Type II audits and support for GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS. Storage regions include the US, UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada and Australia. The SaaS Backup plan costs $3 a month per user, starting from five users, with a 14-day trial.

GMvault backs up Gmail accounts to help preserve email correspondence and can restore a local email repository to Gmail. It offers full synchronization as well as incremental quick synchronization. The tool runs from the command line and is described as user-friendly. XOAuth is enabled by default as the recommended sign-in method; its token is stored in $HOME/.gmvault after first authentication. Users can alternatively sign in with a Gmail password, which is encrypted if they choose to save it. Emails are stored by default in $HOME/gmvault-db, or %HOME%/gmvault-db on Windows. Restore operations include --resume and --restart options for avoiding re-upload of emails already processed. GMvault is free and open source under GNU-AGPL-3.0, with Linux, macOS, and Windows support. The project documents binary installs for those systems and installation from source through Python setup.py, pip, or easy_install. PyPI lists version 1.9.1, published March 31, 2016.