Comments on: Be Prepared — Don’t Be Caught Out When the Cloud Fails

By: March 31 is World Backup Day. When Did You Last Back Up?: Online Collaboration «

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:00:56 +0000

[...] cloud, such as the emails in your webmail account, or documents stored in Google Docs? I recently outlined some techniques you can use to keep that data secure, [...]

By: Evan Islam

Evan Islam — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:15:29 +0000

I trust cloud computing and we are working on moving everything over to clouds.

I trust two companies in the web world now. Rackspace and Google. If Google has a hick up, what guarantee is there that no one else will fail. Even RackSpace had a hick up once where their data center lost power for a period of 7 hours. It’s just the way things are. You can’t control EVERYTHING.

I’m sure Google didn’t want this to happened, but it did. It could happen to any company. Heck, if you have your own servers, your own building can burn down… THEN WHAT?

Cloud is the way to go. Of course, you should always backup backup backup.

By: How I Back Up My Gmail Account: Online Collaboration «

How I Back Up My Gmail Account: Online Collaboration « — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:01:26 +0000

[...] mentioned in my post earlier this week that its a good idea to have a local backup of any critical data that resides on cloud services. [...]

By: Dave F

Dave F — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:55:19 +0000

Nice suggestion.

But if Google does loose everything, does this allow you to “re-upload” the lost, backed up, content to the cloud?

By: Dave F

Dave F — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:53:52 +0000

Good point, Simon.

Since your article was keyed to the Google outage, I’d limited my consideration to that service. But you’re right.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:25:02 +0000

Appreciate you sharing your perspective, Mike. I agree the lack of control is a concern. however, I think the convenience the cloud offers outweighs the risks, for me.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:22:22 +0000

For Gmail, yes. But what about the other cloud services you use, too?

By: Michael Salogga

Michael Salogga — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:15:27 +0000

Very timely post! And hits the main points that the rest of us need to consider when designing a cloud-based solution.

By: Charlie Wood

Charlie Wood — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:21:43 +0000

Keep in mind it’s not just email that’s vulnerable. Spanning Backup (http://spanningbackup.com) continually backs up Google Calendar, Contacts, and Docs and integrates directly with Google Apps so domain admins can back up all their user accounts without their users having to do anything.

By: CVH

CVH — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:41:36 +0000

“Is there a simple way to backup my gmail.com info? And can this be scheduled and run automatically?”

Its there

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Regards