On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 12:14 PM 22/07/2010, Brian Weeden wrote:
The only way you would lose email would be if you deleted it manually, which
Or if something happened to the data on the server...that's why I was
wondering if Gmail did a back up mail in case of hardware failure.
Not sure about actual data backups, but google mirrors their data around
the globe. Multiple data centers would have to go down for them to lose
your data. You might lose access to it if you are normally routed to a
data center that goes down, but they can reroute you to another one in
another country and still have your data there.
This is actually a reason that one of the better known colleges did not
migrate to google apps, google wouldn't give them a list of countries
their data would be stored, instead just a short list of countries it
would NOT be stored.
Christopher Fisk
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