Case Study: Clifton College achieves secure, user-friendly Google Apps backup and self-service restores with Spanning Backup

Clifton College Keeps Google Apps Data Safe with Spanning Backup

Clifton College, a 2,000‑student independent school in the UK, relies heavily on Google Apps for administration and learning but faced the risk of data loss from user error, accidental or malicious deletion, and the limitations of Google’s native recovery tools. With many non-technical users (staff, teachers, and students), the college needed a straightforward, reliable way to protect sensitive student records and academic work that could affect exam outcomes.

The college deployed Spanning Backup for Google Apps to provide automated, secure backups of Gmail, Drive, Sites, Calendar, and Contacts plus an intuitive restore interface that lets end users recover their own data without IT help. The result was an easy-to-use, high-performing solution that adds a critical layer of protection for confidential student and school data, reduces reliance on support, and gives the school confidence that valuable information can be quickly restored.

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