{"id":3949,"date":"2011-02-28T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3949-another-cloud-fail-disappearing-google-accounts.html"},"modified":"2011-02-28T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:54:55","slug":"another-cloud-fail-disappearing-google-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3949-another-cloud-fail-disappearing-google-accounts.html","title":{"rendered":"Another cloud fail: disappearing Google accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time a story like this<\/a> runs it sets back cloud computing. Many users of Google Mail reported yesterday<\/a> a problem with missing email:<\/p>\n

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I was on my eMail normally and when I refreshed all my account settings, eMail, labels, contacts etc has just disappeared.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Google\u2019s App Status Dashboard<\/a> has a series of updates:<\/p>\n

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It does say that the issue affects \u201cless than 0.08% of the Google Mail userbase\u201d. While that does not sound much, if Google Mail has 150 million users that would be 120,000 people. Of those accounts, only a proportion will be critical as some of us use Gmail only casually; but some people are severely inconvenienced:<\/p>\n

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This really is wildly inconvenient and worrisome, though. I rely on my Gmail an enormous amount for my job, and not having access to it is really crippling me. I can’t even do my work at this point, because all the material I need is in attachments on Gmail, so all I can do is wait until I (hopefully) get it back! I suppose I should have saved my files to my computer, but hindsight is 20\/20.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Google is indicating that it will restore the data soon though it is all rather vague.<\/p>\n

Of course there are also failed Exchange Servers and the like out there; sometimes backups fail too and data is lost. Cloud providers like Google do tend to lack transparency though, making times like this anxious ones for those who are affected.<\/p>\n

The real lesson: if you have data you really care about, keep it in more than one place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time a story like this runs it sets back cloud computing. Many users of Google Mail reported yesterday a problem with missing email: I was on my eMail normally and when I refreshed all my account settings, eMail, labels, contacts etc has just disappeared. Google\u2019s App Status Dashboard has a series of updates: It … Continue reading Another cloud fail: disappearing Google accounts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[267,421,422],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-google","tag-cloud-computing","tag-gmail","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}