![]() We can also protect Google Apps Script projects, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Jamboards as part of your Drive contents. Introductionīacking up and restoring Google Drive forms part of our cloud service offering. Contact us for a no-obligation discussion on 020 3102 0040.If you're looking for a Google Workspace backup solution, you can find more information on our website. If you need advice on keeping your data safe, or the way you work has changed due to Social Distancing, take action now and avoid problems later. Contact us today to start your G Suite Backup trial. Remember - Google's cloud is not your backup. Lackup, backup – there’s only one consonant’s difference, but no amount of new verbiage from Google will hide the fact that they’re worlds apart. Naturally, robust data security and protection against ‘ransomweb’ and similar malware that can infect G Suite and then be passed on to poorly configured backup products is also a must.įor more information on what constitutes genuine and effective backup, understanding the features to look out for, and balancing costs against benefits, this previous post will prove helpful. ( Hint: you should be able to access any historical or current version of any file and to do so for a great deal longer than 60 days post-deletion!) So what does real backup look like?Įase of use (‘set and forget’), and complete and seamless coverage not only of all your G Suite files, but also file structures, permissions, settings, etc., are critical, as is speed of restore and re-access. The right backup is key to ensuring that there are multiple, secure copies of your data elsewhere in the cloud, so that your organisation can carry on accessing and using its data from these alternative sources, even if it can’t get to it in G Suite. Your G Suite data is subject to multiple data-threatening risks daily, including (amongst many others), accidental or deliberate deletion, malware / ransomware, non-compliance and G Suite outages. G Suite may be a gold mine for Google, but despite its many benefits and merits it also bears all the hallmarks of a 24-carat lackup. Assuming they haven’t been blitzed from your deleted items already, that is… The scores (hundreds, thousands) of non-Google files your organisation generates every day (Excel, Word, Powerpoint…) are available in the most recent version only. Perhaps most alarmingly of all, a deleted user account – whose activities, output, and storage could form crucial evidence in a compliance, dispute or litigation scenario - is retained for only 20 days and then becomes permanently unrecoverable, potentially taking your business’s defence case down with it.Īnd all the versioning that is supposed to happen in between often doesn’t, since G Suite only versions files that are in native Google formats. After that, the data disappears – irreversibly.Įven if this seems halfway workable, it’s also only half the story, because your deleted contacts and folder structures are gone forever after 30 days. (Admins can retrieve them for you – but only for a further 25 days, or 30 days if they have access to an API designed and built for this purpose - which many don’t). Notwithstanding G Suite’s productivity-enhancing convenience, it is simply not geared up for long-term data access, and the proof for this is that, at every turn, it seems to major on the opportunities for removing your data rather than retaining it!Īfter 30 days, for example, deleted items are automatically purged from your trash and you cannot restore them. You deserve to know what that risk to your data (and your business) looks like, so here’s the unvarnished truth… G Suite is not in the data retention game When the data’s gone, it’s gone forever.Īnd if anything, the updated verbiage above simply proves that Google view this as a significant and growing G Suite risk that they must now insure themselves more determinedly against. We’ve said it before in one of our recent posts ( which we’ve now also updated), and we’ll say it again: lackup vendors will store your data, sync your data, and enable you to retrieve your data – but they do not back it up. To this: ‘Google won’t be responsible for… loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, anticipated savings, indirect or consequential loss, punitive damages.’ They have gone from this (which raised lackup alarm bells as it was): ‘We don’t make any commitments about the content within the Services…Google, and Google’s suppliers and distributors, will not be responsible for lost profits, revenues, or data… ’ We’ve invented a new word for cloud storage services that like you to think they’re backup, but aren’t – ‘lackup’!Īnd nowhere has lackup become more evident in recent weeks than in Google’s updates to its G Suite terms and conditions (T&Cs).
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