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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.

The ABCs of Google Workspace for Education Backup

If your school is using Google Workspace for Education, you may think that Google has your files backed up and available for you in any scenario. But consider the following issues posted to Google Workspace forums by educators and IT admins at schools.


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We’re in the Google Gooru Crew! Get a Google Workspace Tip from Spanning.

When you’ve got questions about “going Google”


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How Does Google Back Up Your Data?

Google guarantees data security, including encryption, authentication, reliable access, a high level of user control, and backup of data. But users should be aware that when Google uses the term “backed up,”


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5 Ways Google Workspace Backup Can Help the Modern Classroom

The modern classroom is quite a bit different than the classroom of ten or even five years ago. Students are signing up for their classes online. Educators are more readily available to their students at all times of the day through email, social media and video chat programs such as Google Hangouts. More of the class work is taking place online and being turned in electronically thanks to platforms like Google Workspace for Education. All of this is becoming the norm, the new way we do things in education.


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4 Common Backup Errors: Spanning Backup Can Help!

A recent article in Tech Republic outlines several common backup errors that people make, and although the article is targeted at Mac users, these errors apply to anyone using a device that contains or is used to access important data. Let’s take a look at these errors and see how Spanning can help with them:


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Spanning Backup: What To Do With Your Exported .mbox File

Spanning Backup offers the option to export your emails into a .mbox file. But many people wonder, “What do I do with that file once it’s been exported?” We’ll answer that question for you today.


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Getting Google Drive Restore Right, Part 3 of 3

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about making sure your backup system restores your files organized just like they were when they were backed up. In Part 2 we looked at restoring multiple files and folders in a single operation. In third and final installment, we’ll examine the importance of a subtle but critically important restore function: point-in-time restores.


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What’s in Your Google Drive? Find Out with Spanning Stats for Google Drive

Two days ago Google launched Google Drive. Yesterday we saw the volume of files uploaded to Google Drive (n


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