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Learn from the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)

Learn from the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)

By Zoli Erdos on March 1, 2011

A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday.  Their account was accidentally “reset”.  Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute.  Is […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application software, backup, data backup, email, Email client, gmail, google, Google Account, google apps, Hotmail, Internet Message Access Protocol, outlook, zoho mail, Zoho Office Suite

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