Spanning Backup Backs Up Gmail and Other Google Services

Contrary to my experience with Contacts and Calendar, Spanning Backup's Gmail interface was brilliant. The interface shows a mirror image of the regular Gmail interface, with the same label tree and conversation headers. To test it, I deleted a conversation in Gmail (sent it to the Bin), and then deleted it from the Bin. Normally, once you do this, the conversation really is gone for good. I then located the conversation on Spanning (without having to deal with snapshots), and clicked Restore. Within moments, the conversation previously "deleted forever" was back in my inbox, with a label showing it was restored by Spanning Backup. That was a satisfying moment indeed.

Spanning Backup gets a lot of things right: The price, the easy setup, and the brilliant Gmail interface. If that same visual simplicity makes it to the Calendar, Contacts, and Docs restoring interfaces, Spanning Backup would be a truly exceptional service.

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