Spanning Blog

Welcome to our blog featuring thought leadership and best practices on SaaS backup and recovery, data protection and security, and regular product updates for Spanning Backup for Office 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce.

Exchange Online Protection (EOP): What It Does, How It Works, Key Features and Limitations

Exchange Online Protection (EOP) helps protect against spam, malware and other email-based threats. Learn more about its features and limitations.


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Salesforce Data Export: A Reliable Backup & Recovery Tool?

Salesforce Data Export allows you to export data from your Salesforce org for backup purposes. But is it a reliable backup and recovery tool?


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Onboarding and Offboarding: The Role of IT Pros

Learn how IT pros can (and should) work with the HR team to build an employee onboarding and offboarding program that is consistent and robust.


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Spanning Blog: The Best of 2020

The Spanning blog provides important insights into the world of enterprise data protection. Here’s a recap of the most popular blogs from 2020.


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Back Up and Restore Google Sites with Structure Intact

I was happy to see our friends at Backupify bring up the importance of structure in your Google Workspace data in their recent blog post. But I was surprised too, since their product’s inability to restore that very structure is one of its greatest weaknesses.


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Managing Users in Spanning Backup [Video]

Enterprise Google Workspace customers need to manage their software licenses not only at the individual user level but also at the level of organizational units (OU’s) they’ve set up. This video shows how Spanning Backup’s OU-aware license manager makes it easy.


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Take Control of Your Backups by Excluding Shared Data

By default, Spanning Backup is set up to back up everything”


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Deletion Policy

As per our Master Subscription Agreement, if you delete Spanning Backup from your Google Workspace domain, your backups will be queued for deletion.


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Gmail’s New “Restore Contacts” Feature Can Destroy Contact Info

Google just launched a feature which lets users restore their Gmail contacts to a previous state from any time in the past 30 days. This is a great addition to Gmail, and will save users lots of heartache. It’s essentially a big “undo”


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