Hopefully someone reading my blog gets the subject reference today. Google has reported that Monday a small amount of users logged into to see something very scary! No mail in their inbox. Not just that but any archives as well. The big sigh to take from all of this is the data was never truly lost. In a state on Google?s blog they reported what had happened and reassured everyone that everything was fine and they would have emails restored to normal shortly.
Here is the breakdown of what Google had to report:
* .02% of Gmail users were actually affected by this.
*Google apologized to all of the users that were affected ?we?re sorry?
*The data wasn?t lost and many who have been affected have already seen their data restored
*it was a new storage software update that gave the bug life and Google caught it before it damaged more gmail accounts.
*Google is currently restoring the data from tape backups.
So to avoid the fear of this issue ever happening in the future, a good tip would be to backup your Gmail in an email client. Hopefully you won?t have to worry about this ever happening again.