Dropbox is undoubtedly one of the most widely used cloud storage. It is available on almost all platforms, from Windows, MacOSX, Linux to nearly all mobile operating systems. Dropbox guarantees that all your files will be protected by 256-bit AES encryption, and all files are transferred through SSL/TLS secure tunnel. What’s more, compared with Google’s privacy […]
CubeBackup 2.6 released
We are proud to announce the release of CubeBackup version 2.6. If you are using an old version of CubeBackup, you may have already received a prompt to upgrade. You can easily upgrade to the new version at any time by using the “Check for update” feature. New features in CubeBackup 2.6 Support for secondary […]
How to speed up backups for large organizations
Schools or large companies with hundreds of users can easily accumulate terabytes of Google Apps data, including tens of millions of Gmail messages. This presents a serious problem for backup strategies – the initial backup may take months or even longer! One reason for this is that CubeBackup performs user backups one by one in […]
CubeBackup 2.0 is released
Today we are shipping CubeBackup 2.0, a major release that has been in the works for 3 months. There are lots of bug fixes and feature improvements in the new version. Can I continue to stay with CubeBackup 1.x? No, you can’t! Based on Google’s API deprecation statement http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2014/12/reminder-to-migrate-to-updated-google.html and https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth_ref, several APIs used […]
Price for educational organizations
Recently, we’ve received a lot of emails inquiring about the pricing for Non-Profit/Educational organizations. Since Google Apps is so popular among students and educators, these users are also very important to us at CubeBackup. We are pleased to offer a discount for Non-Profit/Educational organizations: $99 USD/year Up to 50 accounts $499 USD/year […]
CubeBackup is selected for Google Startup Launch
As a development team that focuses on Google platform, our products are heavily related to Google’s APIs. We are glad to know that our team has been selected for Startup Launch by Google’s Developer Relations team. Google Startup launch offers a series of events and training resources for startup teams, as well as free Google cloud service […]
Automatic backup plan for Linux servers using rsync and crontab
Linux servers are widely used by lots of companies for hosting their websites, databases, or other services. I personally likes Linux system much more than Windows Server, not only because Linux is free, but you get better performance and more powerful tools on Linux. To set up a Linux server, sometime you don’t actually need […]
Introduce Google Apps development at GDG DevFest conference
Last weekend, I was invited as a lecturer in the Google Developer Group DevFest 2014 Beijing to introduce Google Apps development as well as our product CubBackup. DevFest is the biggest annual activity for GDG, where developers who are interested in Google’s technology can meet each other and learn new technologies together. Though most of Google’s […]
Why a backup solution for Google Apps is necessary?
It is said that Google’s service is so secure that massive data loss has never happened on Google’s cloud platform. Why do we still need a backup service? The answer is that most data loss is due to user errors! Here are a few common scenarios: Employees might accidentally delete an important document or email […]
Looking for investors for CubeBackup
Our team is currently seeking investors for CubeBackup. After making CubeBackup online, we need more financial support for marketing our product. At the same time, developing the cloud-to-cloud version of CubeBackup is on our schedule. We are currently kind of short-handed and several more team members are needed. Investment will make us move fast and realize business objectives more […]