On 2010-06-10 11:23 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I wonder how often Google does full disaster recovery off site > backup/mirroring of all those millions of _free_ 7GB mailboxen. > AFAIK, Google makes no guarantees WRT mailbox contents. They may have > full multi site redundancy, but I've yet to read a whitepaper > describing it.
Anyone who stores critical email on a free service gets no sympathy from me if they lose anything. That said, I've only heard a few horror stories of services losing all of someone's email (I think it was hotmail, many years ago, some woman used it exclusively for her business email and lost like 7 years worth of critical emails). They're actually pretty reliable... but for me its more the privacy (or lack thereof) issue that keeps me from using them more... -- Best regards, Charles
