Last week, we came across the widely spread story of a man named Dylan who was locked out of his Google account where he had built up over seven years’ worth of data. The worst part was that Google didn’t even acknowledge his issue and was apparently unwilling to help.
Imagine if you were Dylan. Perhaps you run your company’s email on Gmail, save critical business plans on Google Docs, and have all your important business contacts stored in Google Contacts. One day, you log into your account but are denied access – almost as if your account never existed.
In the midst of freaking out, you search the web for ways to remedy this problem. All you find are the multitudes of Google help forum posts (like this and this) of users having the same issue — but response or resolution from Google.
Now what? Where do you turn?
Truth is, Google is infamous for a lack of customer support. However, they are very well known for a plethora of powerful web apps like Gmail. What is one to do when they you much want to use Google’s free apps yet are hesitant to entrust Google to saving all your data?
Simply put, backup is a best practice, regardless of whether your data is stored locally or in the cloud. No matter how technically competent Google’s staff or physically redundant Google’s systems – a failure on Google’s part leaves your data vulnerable to inaccessibility, corruption or outright loss.
If your organization would be disrupted by the inability to access data in Google Apps, you should have a backup of your Google Apps domain and any other Google services you use.
At Backupify, we have spoken to many users who love Google yet are a bit reluctant to give them 100% control over their data. They find a safety net in Backupify since we provide a separate, third party backup and archive of all this data in the case that this information is ever inaccessible – such as in Dylan’s case.
We recently heard from some of our users on why they trust Backupify to safeguard their Google Apps data:
“Easy, cheap, unbelievable peace of mind – if you’re not using this, and just trusting the beneficence of Google, you’re making a very uneconomic decision to forgo this cheap insurance.” – John M.
“I love Google Apps, but it always made me nervous that we had all our email activity in their servers only. Backupify allows you to create a backup of your emails and other information, like Google Docs, so we’re not dependent on one provider only for our info.” – Miriam S.
“It’s great to have a simple, daily backup to protect our company data. Google’s great, but I hate putting all of our eggs in one basket.” – Greg B.
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