You should definitely do backups. But I'm pretty sure that in the vast majority of outages you'll suffer with gmail you won't have the time to recover you're b

You should definitely do backups. But I'm pretty sure that in the vast majority of outages you'll suffer with gmail you won't have the time to recover you're backup before the service is back up. That said, you should definitely do backups. It's just that it wouldn't have helped in this case.