The Official Spanning Blog: Industry Trends in SaaS Data Protection

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.

Apr 26
2012

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

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

Apr 14
2011

Take Control of Your Backups by Excluding Shared Data

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By default, Spanning Backup is set up to back up everything”

Mar 29
2011

Deletion Policy

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As per our Master Subscription Agreement, if you delete Spanning Backup from your Google Workspace domain, your backups will be queued for deletion.

Dec 14
2010

Gmail’s New “Restore Contacts” Feature Can Destroy Contact Info

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Google just launched a feature which lets users restore their Gmail contacts to a previous state from any time in the past 30 days. This is a great addition to Gmail, and will save users lots of heartache. It’s essentially a big “undo”