Spanning Backup Features

Spanning Backup helps thousands of clients around the world simply and automatically backup their business-critical email, documents, calendars, and contacts. Spanning Backup is always on, easy-to-use, and will protect your Google Apps data in the event of accidental deletions, botched syncs, malicious destruction, file corruption, and more.

  • Simple cloud-based app — Configure in seconds, set it and forget it. Continually backs up your data whether you are online or not.
  • Automated daily and on-demand backups — You control exactly when your data is backed up.
  • Unlimited storage — Paid accounts have unlimited storage, so you never have to worry about running out of space for your backups
  • Simple, integrated restore — Restore backups directly into Google Apps in seconds, including multiple email messages, documents, folders, calendars, or contact groups in a single operation.
  • One-click shared data exclusion — Reduces storage requirements by easily excluding data shared by other users
  • Per-file versioning — Retains historical versions of every calendar, contact group, and document, enabling restore to any previous known-good state.
  • Admin control — Set preferences, perform backups, and restore data on your users’ behalf, all while maintaining strict account security.
  • Incremental backup — Transfers only data created or updated since the last backup, optimizing performance and storage requirements.
  • Metadata backup — Backup and restore document directory structure, nested folders, sharing and permissions settings, contact photos, and more.
  • ACL retention — Ensures restored folders, documents, calendars, and events retain access control lists.
  • Selective backups — Choose which calendars, contact groups, or document folders are backed up, and has easy shortcuts for excluding data shared with you.
  • Privacy & Security — Certified compliance with the EU-Safe Harbor and EU-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks; TRUSTe privacy certification for site, service, and Google Apps Marketplace listing.
  • Service Level Agreement Guarantee — high historical uptime of over 99.95% and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.