Thanks Mark,<br><br>I was curious to spot some addendums on the original post with now just 40,000 accounts affected (perhaps having trouble with one server restoration) .. a fraction of a faction of a percent, perhaps a saltmine data centre just filled with water or sea-haven fell into the sea. The Google Virtual Machines I hear are replicated across different continents on hundreds of thousands of servers.. My suspicion is that they had to manually restore some accounts and this probably takes up to 24 hours. Their apology is probably just good caution.<br>
<br>This is better data recovery than compared to say, replicating your files to a home computer where we typically only rarely backup. As I keep pointing out to my family, hard drives and USB keys do and will fail .. and that storing the backup drive with or next to the computer is a bad idea. Any enterprise CEO can still keep and automatically sync a local backup of their cloud based Gmail and Docs with webdav and imap.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><em></em><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Mark KELLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">GFail: Google ‘Very Sorry’ After the Cloud Eats 150,000 Gmail Accounts<br>
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"For years now, Google has touted the reliability of its cloud-based<br>
products — web services like Gmail and Docs that live on remote Google<br>
servers, which users can access from anywhere.<br>
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Of course, if you were one of the estimated 150,000 people whose Gmail<br>
accounts vanished into the ether Sunday night, you may be<br>
re-evaluating the efficacy of these cloud-based services."<br>
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/gmail-fail/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/gmail-fail/</a><br>
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