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Mar 12
2019

Gmail Recovery Made Easy: Get Lost Gmail Back in Just a Few Clicks

BY Daivat Dholakia

As a Google Workspace admin, you’re likely familiar with panic-struck end users asking you to restore Gmail messages that are lost. Here are some common Gmail data loss scenarios, with steps to use Spanning Backup to restore email messages in a couple of clicks. Restoring Lost Email Consider two examples for end user Gmail data [...]

Mar 01
2019

Google Account Recovery: Get Your Data Back the Way it Was in Just a Few Clicks

BY Daivat Dholakia

What if you want your Google account up and running online again, just as it was before the account was lost or deleted? In this case, you’ll want to fully restore the data from the deleted account to an active account, and you’ll need Spanning’s help to do this.

Spanning Backup makes this type of Google account recovery simple. As always, you can complete your backup and recovery goals in just a matter of clicks:

Mar 02
2018

What State and Local Governments Need to Know About Risks in Google Workspace and Office 365

BY Lori Witzel

Software as a Service (SaaS) collaborative platform adoption is increasing among state and local government — but along with increased adoption comes added risk. In this blog, you’ll learn how to reduce the risks from ransomware and malicious insiders if you’ve adopted Office 365 or Google Workspace. You’ll also learn more about: Why SaaS collaboration […]

Oct 26
2017

Google Account Recovery for Deleted Accounts: What Are Your Options?

BY Lori Witzel

A Google admin may need to not only restore lost Gmail or Drive data, but may also need to recover all data for deleted accounts. This could happen if an end user is phished or hacked (see this recent Google phishing exploit for one such scenario.) Or, as our friends at the Alzheimer’s Association have [...]

Oct 03
2017

3 Options for Restoring Lost Data in Google Workspace

BY Lori Witzel

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.

Jul 25
2017

Google Team Drives Backup, Now Available with Spanning Backup for Google Workspace

BY Lori Witzel

Google Workspace and Google admins trust us to provide enterprise-grade backup and quick, easy restoration of items to the way they were at any point in time. And they trust us to innovate in sync with Google, to ensure all their Google Workspace data is protected. In line with Google’s recent release of Google Workspace [...]

Jun 26
2017

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

BY Lori Witzel

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 [...]

May 04
2017

What Yesterday’s Gmail Attack Taught Us

BY Mat Hamlin

Data Protection is a shared responsibility. The Internet was all abuzz yesterday when a sophisticated Gmail phishing attack hit. The rogue email, often appearing to be sent from one of your contacts, masqueraded as a Google Docs sharing request, but in actuality was a link that requests the user to grant access to an application [...]

Apr 22
2016

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

BY Lori Witzel

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 [...]

Jan 25
2016