Release Notes
Current release, June 27, 2024
NEW Shared drive workflow
This release adds a new workflow for shared drive protection. Shared drive data is no longer included in a user's Drive backups. Instead, shared drives are backed up separately. This results in faster user backups and a simplified workflow for protecting and restoring shared drive data, using the new Manage Shared Drives page.
Shared drive protection is included with Spanning Backup at no additional charge. To start protecting shared drives, simply activate daily backups for each drive you want to protect. While activating backups, you can opt to enable the Auto Backup New Shared Drives feature to ensure that backups are automatically activated for any newly discovered shared drives.
If you had been protecting shared drives prior to the June 2024 release (e.g., shared drives were included in users' Drive backups), daily backups continue to run for those drives without disruption.
See these topics for details:
- Protecting Shared Drives – procedures for managing shared drive backups and a comparison of the old and new workflows
- Restoring Shared Drive Data – procedures for restoring and exporting shared drive data
- Shared Drives New Workflow video – check out this short video for a look at the new shared drives workflow
