Each one of us has the power to do something about it: Perform a Backup.
We should be downloading our mailbox with our contacts on a regular basis. I'm guilty for not doing this, but seems like an area that can use a SaaS.
We should be downloading our mailbox with our contacts on a regular basis. I'm guilty for not doing this, but seems like an area that can use a SaaS.
But I'm pretty sure that in the vast majority of outages you'll suffer with gmail you won't have the time to recover you're backup before the service is back up.
That said, you should definitely do backups. It's just that it wouldn't have helped in this case.
One day I'll have the time to write that script manually