Gmail back soon for everyone

"If you were affected by this issue, it’s important to note that email sent to you between 6:00 PM PST on February 27 and 2:00 PM PST on February 28 was likely not delivered to your mailbox, and the senders would have received a notification that their messages weren’t delivered. "<p>That's pretty scary to me. I would've hated to have gotten any e-mail alerts or payment due date reminders during that time.

How on earth do they backup all that to tape?<p>Must be a massive amount of tape.

i love how they keep mentioning "0.02%" so you think it's some insignificant number, but it's actually something like 150,000 accounts.

"We released a storage software update that introduced the unexpected bug, which caused 0.02% of Gmail users to temporarily lose access to their email. When we discovered the problem, we immediately stopped the deployment of the new software and reverted to the old version."<p>Some bug!!

It is worth noting that this is the first significant data loss issue that I am aware of involving gmail. As much as the incident sucks for those involved, that is a pretty good record overall.

This is great, last night I went to bed thinking "How could Google just walk away from this problem without fixing it, don't they have backups, what about corporate users?"<p>And this morning "we have backups, we're restoring, oh and we're trying to fix what caused it in the first place"

Would it be safe to assume then, that Google tests it's software upgrades with 0.02% of it's gmail account? (However many thousands clients are affected, it's probably better than affecting ALL their clients).<p>I wonder how they choose their 'test' client base.

I can't remember having this sort of problem with yahoo mail. Then again they don't build their own filesystem.