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3 Options for Restoring Lost Data in Google Workspace

With Google’s recently announced Data Loss Prevention feature, you may think your Google Workspace domain is safe enough, but you’d be wrong. Their Data Loss prevention will protect Google Workspace Unlimited customers in rule-based ways, but can do nothing to protect customers from sync errors, or errors where admins or users accidentally delete critical email.

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So You’re Adopting Google Team Drives: 4 Fast Backup and Data Protection Facts

Google’s recent release of Team Drives for Google Workspace Drive has sysadmins and cloud IT teams talking up a storm across social media. Here's just a sample. In this blog post, we’ll go beyond those conversations to answer some of the questions we’ve heard directly from Spanning customers and other Google sysadmins, such as: What [...]

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Automate Licensing with Spanning Rest API

Almost every IT manager and admin I meet is looking for ways to work more quickly and efficiently. Rather than viewing automation as the enemy of job security, these pros realize that it can free up time for IT to focus on more strategic tasks. Automation can also help ensure traditional processes like backup occur [...]

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New Features for Spanning Backup for Google Workspace: Help Desk Admin and Custom Email Labels

Data loss can happen in Google Workspace through sync errors, user errors, malicious actions, or admin errors. In fact, according to recent research, roughly 70% of all SaaS data loss incidents are due to user error. To effectively protect your data from loss, you need the leader in enterprise-grade backup for Google Workspace, Spanning by [...]

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New Feature for Spanning Backup for Salesforce: Cross-Org Restore

If you’re a Salesforce admin, Salesforce developer, or business analyst working with Salesforce, you know keeping your development and testing environments – your Sandboxes – loaded with production data is vital to ensuring new configurations and improvements will deliver their required results. Wouldn’t it be great to reduce the work it takes to populate a Sandbox or developer org with production data and do so whenever you needed? In early March, there will be a better way.

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Do I Need To Back Up Google Docs? Absolutely.

While Google for Work (and Google Docs) seems like an ideal solution for the modern workplace “

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5 Key Differences in Email Backup and Retention between Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365

As organizations make the move to the cloud, they inevitably find themselves comparing Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365 in terms of price, functionality, security, and storage capacity. One important component here – and one that varies quite a bit between the two offerings – is the native backup, retention, and data protection policies included with the SaaS services.

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A New Way to Recover Deleted Google Calendar Events: What It Is, and What It Isn’t

Google recently announced a new way to recover deleted Calendar events. In this blog post, you’ll learn more about what this functionality can do, what it can’t do, and what you should do to protect your Google Calendar data (in addition to using Google’s new functionality.)

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Yes, You Can Lose Data from Exchange Online

I hear this question a lot “

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Are You Backing Up Your Entire Exchange Mailbox in Office 365?

You’ve been hearing from us for a while that it’s important to protect the data you work with in SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365. Even though SaaS application providers do an excellent job of protecting your data from infrastructure or application failures, they can’t (and won’t) protect you from the mistakes your admins and users may make, nor will they protect you from malicious activity.

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