The Official Spanning Blog: Industry Trends in SaaS Data Protection

Aug 15
2013

Evaluating Enterprise Backup Solutions: It’s All About Recovery

BY Spanning Cloud Apps

There’s plenty to consider when choosing an enterprise backup solution “

May 21
2013

5 Ways Google Workspace Backup Can Help the Modern Classroom

BY Spanning Cloud Apps

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.

May 14
2013

Education Backup Is Important for Students Too

BY Spanning Cloud Apps

In a previous post, we discussed why a student might need their data backed up now that more assignments are being completed and submitted via the cloud. If a student works hard on an assignment only to have it lost due to a technical glitch, do they deserve the bad grade that would normally result from not turning something in? Fortunately, backup can render this a moot point.

May 09
2013

4 Common Backup Errors: Spanning Backup Can Help!

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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:

Mar 22
2013

Spanning Backup: Make the Most of Your 14-Day Free Trial in 14 Minutes

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We’ve always offered a 14-day free trial for Spanning Backup (to get it, click here). But we don’t want you to just download the trial and play around with it a bit; we really want you to kick the tires on Spanning Backup so you can be sure it’s the right solution for your needs. So with that in mind, here’s a quick guide to getting the most out of your free trial:

Mar 19
2013

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

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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.

Oct 30
2012

Back Up and Restore Google Sites with Structure Intact

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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.

Oct 05
2012

Getting Google Drive Restore Right, Part 3 of 3

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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.

Aug 05
2012

Managing Users in Spanning Backup [Video]

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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.

Jun 22
2012

Spanning Completes SSAE 16 Audit, Issued Attestation of Compliance

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Spanning, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Workspace, today announced that the company has successfully completed the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Type 1 audit process, making it the only Google Workspace cloud-to-cloud backup provider to do so.