Gmail account got deleted

This story is everywhere. A guy's Gmail account got mysteriously deleted from Google servers. He says he had CRUCIAL data in that account and no backups. Many people, including Jeremy are making fun of the poor soul, but I just wonder - if you have an email account with a big company like Google (or Yahoo, or Microsoft) - it is pretty reasonable to expect them to do backups of your data. When was the last time anybody have heard about Yahoo or Hotmail account disappearing in a black hole?

Anyway - I hope the guy will learn one important lesson - "trust nobody".

Oh, and I wonder where does this stand on a "do no evil" scale.

By the way, there are many online backup services these days: Amazon S3, Box.net, Xdrive to mention a few.