After months of development, we’re proud to announce the launch of Spanning Backup for Google Apps v3.0.
The most readily apparent change is a revamped user interface. We’ve studied users’ interactions with Spanning Backup and used our findings to create a simplified, streamlined experience that effectively reduces the distance between you and your data.
We’ve also listened carefully to feedback from Google Apps admin power users, many of whom told us they need to be able to restore data on behalf of their users within seconds. So we’ve revamped the user impersonation function, making it more intelligent, easier to use, and even faster than it was before.
We’ve also integrated our Admin Dashboard into the application itself. Admins now have a single, consolidated view into their backup coverage, 30 days of Google Apps service health history, and their storage usage.
Finally, we’ve done a lot of work below the waterline. We back up terabytes of data for thousands of businesses, and are constantly improving our backend services to maintain our position as the highest-rated backup app on the Google Apps Marketplace.
We’ll be describing the new functionality in Spanning Backup v3.0 in a series of posts over the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned. 2012 is off to a beautiful start!
- Posted at 08:22 PM
- Comments (5)
January 14, 2012 at 5:40 pm, Ian Mullen said:
Is it possible yet to restore to another email account that we own?
January 14, 2012 at 5:52 pm, cwood said:
Ian-
As a security measure, Spanning Backup will only restore data into the Google Apps account from which it was backed up. From there you can export/import data into another account. Please let me know if you have any questions or run into any problems.
Thanks,
Charlie
January 30, 2012 at 8:58 pm, ian said:
Hi This is a real problem in our set of circumstances where we have many many google accounts. We would need (even if it required an extra level of special security approvals of ownership)
Security is only an issue if one was unsure of ownership – but as you know with google – there can be no mistake! of who owns an account! You either own it or you do not? if you do own it and it is a legit account you can give access – if you do not own it you cannot. So I have real difficulty in understanding the security risk?
Might you consider a special arrangement that would achieve the ability of restoration to an another account that I own?
January 30, 2012 at 9:12 pm, cwood said:
Ian-
We can definitely see the use cases. I think we might have an elegant solution. Stay tuned.
Thanks,
Charlie
February 04, 2012 at 9:31 pm, mal said:
Dear Charlie,
When you find this elegant solution for Ian, please post it as this the biggest issue I have with spanning.
Thank you for your help in this matter.
mal