[clug] Interesting article

[Steve Walsh]

Michael Still wrote:
> Steve Walsh wrote:
>> Having just gone through a whole bunch of documentation as part of a 
>> student email migration, neither gmail or hotmail (or hotmail as 
>> exchange labs) explicitly guarantee the availability or accessibility 
>> of your email. They generally (from what I could extract with pokers 
>> and teeth pliers) do "backup" by keeping your email in perpetual 
>> motion on a daily basis, so that if they lose the DC you happen to be 
>> in, TS, but it only impacts a small number of people. If you want the 
>> ability to recover email that's been deleted or lost in a system 
>> crash, then you run your email through a (different) company that 
>> archives your mail first.
>
> This is incorrect.
>
> Mikal

can you elaborate on this? Gmail does do archiving and backup of all 
email, or all email is kept in the one datacentre for all eternity?


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