Spanning Backup is the best backup software I have used
December 20, 2018
Spanning Backup is the best backup software I have used
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Spanning Backup for G Suite
Spanning is used across our entire organization of approximately 80 active users. Every active user mailbox, as well as Google Drive storage contents, are backed up with Spanning. All files types including Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms as well as Microsoft and Adobe file types are backed up perpetually and available for restoration.
- Perpetual email and file backups.
- No limits on backup volume, capacity or file types.
- Excellent Management Console for Administrative users.
- End-user access available for self-management.
- Easy to enable and disable various accounts for backup.
- Easy to restore emails and files from one account to another.
- Administrative users can backup multiple accounts at one time, but can only restore one account at a time.
- Management console navigation opens additional tabs, but I believe they are working to improve that.
- It would be nice to be able to delete emails and files from user accounts from within Spanning instead of having to login to Google as the user.
- Google Forms meta-data is not able to be restored to other accounts.
- Nonprofit friendly pricing.
- Scales easily to add more accounts.
- No hardware to maintain.
Spanning is superior to Veritas Backup Exec. Often Backup Exec would fail due to the software itself or the premise-based backup media or drive. Veritas Tech Support/Knowledgebase was not helpful in troubleshooting the failures. Also, Veritas was unable to back up our then Microsoft Exchange Server without an additional add-on cost. Barracuda was more reliable, but also required additional expenses for backing up Exchange and Microsoft SQL.