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Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

dafyre

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.

Dashrender

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.

Thanks for this.

I have a client that doesn’t want to do M365 backups because they think a cloud provider won’t lose data.