Spanning Backup Reviews & Product Details

Spanning is a low cost backup solution that is extremely easy to use from both an IT perspective as well as an end user trying to restore their own files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spanning has been the best solution for O365 Office backup (email, Sharepoint, OneDrive, etc.) we have found! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Even though Google provides their own backup service, it is not intuitive and so Spanning makes it very easy for me to see when my data has been backed up, and easily restore any individual emails, files or files directly. It's very simple to set up and use, and I've found the support to be excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can' come up with anything to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to setup and use. Haven't had any issues with it running. We use it every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No centralize console to monitor different client tenats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very useful and simple ui.

Backup with just affected licence.

Restore on on click and possible restore by user directly.

Just sharepoint list backup is missed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sharepoint list backup is missed and is very dislike for our workflow validation peocess. It's impossible to backup the validation process for our paperless process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using spanning for almost two years now and everything from the rollout, the management to the license pricing makes it a very appealing option to back up both Microsoft and google workspace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At first the integrations and rollouts were a little bumpy. They have since fixed I would say about 90% of the challenges that we have experienced. I am excited to see more of the integrations happen Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seamlessly integrates with Salesforce so the installation and setup is a breeze. Restore function is also easy to understsand and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would appreciate more granular restore capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing that stands out most is the cost of the service. It's priced very well and it does backup everything on Google Workspace. The main feature I used it for was Google Drive. The web interface allows you to see all files backed up on an individual level as well as date stamps for each backup. The most useful feature is that you can restore everything with a single action if needed.

UPDATE:

I can confirm that, as of 05/2023, I have not incurred an "Exessive Use" charge. This is good news! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ToS is not publicly available. After I manually requested it I was able to verify that even though the website advertises "unlimited", the ToS states:

"it is Excessive Use if at any time the cost of Licensee's Users' storage consumption far exceeds the Fees for the Services as calculated by Spanning".

If you occur "Excessive Use" they charge $275/TB.

Spanning also does not backup any files on Google Drive that are only downloadable by the owner, such as files flagged as malware. This can be very annoying because Google will have false positives that it flags and those files will never be backed up. Other services don't have this issue.

UPDATE:

I attempted a restore several times for files as little as 101GB and the restore gets "stuck". When I use the word "stuck", I mean the the restore is still there and acts like it's working, but no progress is made after a certain point. You have to reach out to support to have them confirm it's stuck and cancel it for you so you can try again.

Engineering reports this as an API call limit. I find that hard to believe under the circumstances. Nonetheless, there's no point in offering the service for customers with large Google Drives if you can't restore more than 100GB at a time.

Out of 4 restores, 3 have gotten "stuck"... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy interface and easy to use. Plenty of space for backups. Can backup up Teams, SharePoint and email Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Restoring can be soemwhat tricky for first time users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

gave us the possibility to recover the deleted messages and recover critical inbformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes the searching process is not easy, would be geat an spanish version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and the ability to create managers of different tenants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It only creates one backup per day. Cannot export as a PST file. Exports come as zips with msg files inside. Makes sorting through the restored emails if your are exporting them a nightmare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.