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When The Online Mob Punishes You For Crimes You Didn’t Commit

by Jay Garmon on Jan 09, 2012 in Data Loss Examples

We’ve written in the past about the unexpected data threat of online vigilantes. Groups like Anonymous, LulzSec or simply the various members of 4chan have shown an almost pathological willingness to take down web sites and services that don’t meet with the hacker-mob’s ideals of business, ethics or fair play. Unless and until you say [...]

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Backupify the Enterprise – New Features Make Cloud Backup Even Easier

by Kristin Dziadul on Dec 20, 2011 in Lifestreaming

Backupify has made several improvements to the administrative controls in your Backupify account so that you can quickly add, manage and modify any user or service in minutes.
We have made it easier for you to add unlimited domain users to your Backupify account, added Google Docs versioned backups and launched full-account restore and account-wide search. Customer development feedback allows us to fully understand the way you are using your cloud apps so that we can continuously develop customer-centric products and features like these.

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Restore an Entire Google Apps Account at Once with Backupify

by Kristin Dziadul on Dec 09, 2011 in Backups

Today, we’re announcing full account restore. If you have a deleted or corrupted account in Google Apps, with one click you can now restore the entire account. On top of that, not only do we restore your account nearly instantaneously, but you can actually watch your files, emails, calendar events, etc. instantly appear back in your account as they are restored. (Note: All restored files will be labeled ‘Backupify Restore’)

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First Do No Harm: The Importance of Non-Destructive Restores

by Jay Garmon on Dec 06, 2011 in About Backupify

The First Law of Disaster Recovery: A Backup Solution Is Only As Good As Its Restores  Corollary to The First Law: Restores Should Create Data, Not Destroy It  For the uninitiated, there are two kinds of data restores made possible by backup and recovery systems: Destructive restores and non-destructive restores. Destructive restores are, as the [...]

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Backupify now backs up Google Chats

by Jay Garmon on Nov 21, 2011 in About Backupify
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Backupify now backs up Google Chats. Those of us who use gChat (remember when it was called Google Talk?) know it has become an important part of everyday business, be it asking a quick question to a co-worker, supporting a customer or locking down details with a partner. Having a record of these interactions can [...]

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