Spanning Blog

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.

Spanning’s Latest Free Tool: Undelete for Google Calendar

Hopelessness. Anger. Frustration. Dismay. If you’ve ever accidentally deleted an event”


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Understanding the Importance of Both Non-Destructive Backups and Restores

One of our competitors has been making a lot of noise recently about how they do “non-destructive restores”


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Spanning Loves Resellers

I am very happy to report that today, we at Spanning are closing out the month with some really exciting reseller activity. The Google Workspace reseller community is realizing the growing need for backup in their customers’ Google Workspace domains, and they are putting their trust in us to fill that need.


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Q: Do I have to back up all users in my domain?

A: No. You will purchase only the number of paid seats that you’re needing for the domain. You will then use the seat picker to assign those paid seats to the domain users that you’re wanting backed up. Any domain users that are not assigned a paid seat will not be backed up.


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Q: Can an admin set up Spanning Backup for domain users?

A: Yes! When signed into Spanning Backup as a domain admin, you can click the down-arrow next to the domain name to see a list of Spanning Backup users in the domain. You can choose which user in the domain you’re wanting to “impersonate”


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Q: How do I assign an admin user to Spanning Backup?

A: Spanning Backup automatically assigns admin priveleges to any domain user that has been given admin status through the actual Google account.


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Q: How do I install Spanning Backup?

A: You can install Spanning Backup by going here, then


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Battle in the Clouds: Intelligence on Google Workspace

Google Workspace is used by more than 40 million people and signs up 5,000 new businesses every day according to numbers recently cited by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.


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How to Enable Gmail Backup for Your Existing Spanning Backup Installation

If you already have Spanning Backup installed in your Google Workspace domain, here’s how to enable Gmail backup for all of your paid Spanning Backup users:


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Spanning Backup Increases Storage to 25GB for All Paid Users

When you’re backing up important data, the last thing you want to worry about is running out of space for your backups. So we’ve raised every paid Spanning Backup user’s storage quota from 2GB to 25GB”


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