[SGVLUG] Google clears calendar?

[Matthew Campbell]

No data was lost, just offline.  I guess it is a great testament to the
service that I was surprised.  I guess I'll let them have a few seconds of
downtime over four years of free service. ;)

Matt
 On Dec 6, 2010 2:13 PM, "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Yeah. I've never lost any data on Google apps, but I have
> had momentary outages.
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Rae Yip <rae.yip at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I were to guess, it's more likely that Google had a failed node,
>> and the data had to be routed  and re-cached from somewhere else.
>>
>> Not necessarily a bug, depending on whether the recovery happened
>> within expected SLA.
>>
>> -Rae.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Harold Totten <haroldtotten at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> re: deleted calendar history
>>>
>>> I've been using Yahoo calendar for 10 years.  I've recently been
considering
>>> switching to Google because I can't access Yahoo calender from my
>>> BlackBerry.  Sounds like Google calendar has a bug and isn't ready.  Let
me
>>> know when this is resolved.
>>> Harold
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Rae Yip <rae.yip at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I still have calendar events from the first half of the year. But
>>>> admittedly I haven't been using Google Calendar for as long.
>>>>
>>>> On the same subject, does anyone remember if Charles Wyble had a
>>>> recommendation for  a calendar alternative during his Own Your Data
>>>> talk?
>>>>
>>>> -Rae.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Yikes!  Argh!!!!
>>>> >
>>>> > Did Google just delete 4 years of my life?
>>>> >
>>>> > I went back to confirm where I was at the end of September on a
>>>> > specific day and my calendar was blank.
>>>> >
>>>> > Did Google delete all my event history?
>>>> >
>>>> > Matt
>>>> >
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Harold Totten
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>>>
>>>
>>
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