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Mixed reviews on the Google Apps marketplace for backupify: https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewReviews?pr... -- 27 users take 21 days to backup? Might well be the Google Apps infrastructure that's not up to the task. Looking at my company's Google apps domain, we probably have several million threads and are close to a terabyte of data. I imagine backing that up via IMAP could take a while.

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Those are fair criticisms of Backupify to date. We've recently totally reworked our throttling mechanisms, to our initial backup times are decreasing rather rapidly. But, to your point, we are at the mercy of how fast Google can give us the data through their API. That said, given Google's general uptime, the likelihood of Google losing a file before we can back it up is pretty remote. Not zero chance, but really unlikely.

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