Comments on: Do You Back Up Your Gmail?

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:03:40 +0000

How do you back-up gmail to another online account?

By: Matt Wilkinson

Matt Wilkinson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:55:19 +0000

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9646&tag=nl.e539

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:11:09 +0000

At least every couple of weeks I use a POP3 outlook account to grab all my GMail. This grabs all the “important” emails that I want to archieve on my server in a PST file. This seems to work well.

By: Aryeh Goretsky

Aryeh Goretsky — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:24:43 +0000

Hello,

I download my Gmail via POP3S to a desktop client, and then periodically back up the saved mail to an external hard disk drive (daily), DVD-RAM and tape (weekly or less, depending upon the amount of new data). So far, this process seems to work for me.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

By: OmniDragon

OmniDragon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:21:51 +0000

Yeah, I always back up my Gmail. I usually back it up to another email account online somewhere else. Plus I use Time Machine to backup to an external hd.

By: Matt Wilkinson

Matt Wilkinson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:33:49 +0000

Hey Matt H, Matt W here.

I recently moved my biz e-mail to Google and access via IMAP. Because I have a healthy dose of fear and paranoia about my data, I do backup my Google Apps hosted e-mail. I actually employ a couple different techniques to do this, but suffice it to say, if Google did something goofy, I still have all my e-mail data.

Matt W.

By: Don Salva

Don Salva — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:43:22 +0000

The reason they do that pretty much is the illegal filesharer’s fault.

Because recently more and more people keep sharing their g-mail account for file sharing.

Person A uploads FileGame to it and Person B downloads it.

With 7GB file storage that’s pretty darn sweet. Of course there are those 1-click-hosters like rapidshare.com or upload.to but they have bandwidth restrictions, don’t they?