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Jun 16
2015

What is cascade delete and why is it a threat to your Salesforce data?

BY Spanning Cloud Apps

If you’ve ever lost data is Salesforce, perhaps through accidental deletion or a data merge error, you know how frustrating it can be to retrieve that data. Sifting through the Salesforce manual Weekly Export is time consuming and can result in data recovery that is incomplete or inaccurate, because it doesn’t include metadata or customizations to your instance. Another issue is presented by the parent-child relationship between records. This can lead to data loss associated with something called “cascade delete.”

Apr 23
2015

What is SaaS Metadata, and Why Do You Need to Protect It? Part I

BY Spanning Cloud Apps

If you’re a SaaS application administrator (for example, you manage Google for Work, or Salesforce, or Office 365) and don’t know much about the importance of metadata for your SaaS apps, you’re not alone.

Feb 25
2015

5 Simple Ways to Ensure Data Harmony in Salesforce

BY Spanning Cloud Apps

At Spanning, we don’t just back up Salesforce – we use it every day ourselves. We thought we’d share our best practices for maintaining good Salesforce data during major data imports and everyday operations as well as some ways to automate your processes.

Jan 28
2015

How to Back Up and Restore Your Salesforce Dashboards, Reports, and Data

BY Lori Witzel

Have you ever tried to restore changed Salesforce data back to its original state, or to recover lost Salesforce data? It’s not as simple as you might think. The good news is that Salesforce has recently updated their knowledge base with new information on two use cases, as well as covering on how to handle general backup and restore scenarios.