On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Ann Hamel <ann.hamel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve,
> You mention little concern about the Google end of things, but I have seen
> a
> document disappear right before my eyes, no way to retrieve them using
> Google Docs. Not the norm, but not impossible.
> -Ann
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Steve Taffee <staffee@castilleja.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Like many schools who have made the switch to Google Apps for Education,
> > we're finding that an increasing number of important documents are making
> > their way into the cloud, where Google Docs make collaboration a powerful
> > and easy-to-use partner to traditional desktop applications such as Open
> > Office and MS Office.
> >
> > I have relatively little concern about Google's infrastructure. I am
> > confident that their redundant systems, bandwidth, and QOS standards are
> > such that serious data loss and service availability issues are very low.
> >
> > However, I am concerned about accidental erasure of important data by end
> > users with no way to recover the data.
> >
> > On the email side, we do use Postini mail archiving for our faculty and
> > staff, but not students.
> >
> > On the Google Docs side, you can enable offline access for Google Docs
> > which
> > provides a measure of backup, but as it is primarily designed to be a
> means
> > of allowing laptop users to access documents while offline, and then
> > synchronizes documents when a connection is re-established, it's not a
> true
> > back-up solution. If you delete the online copy, the off-line copy will
> > also
> > be deleted at the same time.
> >
> > I need a solution like Postini email archiving but for Google Docs.
> Anyone
> > have a suggestion?
> >
> >
> > -----
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> > Director of Technology 650.924.1040 (Google Voice)
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