Comments on: How I Back Up My Gmail Account http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/ Sun, 19 May 2013 10:04:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: flippertie http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-605770 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:41:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-605770 Backupify does sound great. The limitation is that they only give you 2 GB free storage – which is easy to fill if you have a lot of email, or backup facebook, contacts, etc – then you need to move to the paid service… (which is what they want, obviously).

They use the “oauth” system to connect to your account, which means that you tell gmail (or facebook etc) to authorise backupify to access yout account, and Gmail gives them a unique token that allows them to access the account – they do not ever see or store your password. You can revoke the permission at anytime without needing to change your gmail password.
NB – I’ve only been using them for a couple of weeks so…..

]]> By: Ondrej http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-605704 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:00:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-605704 Thank you for your reply flippertie. I looked at Spanning Backup, but they don’t do Gmail, saying that’s what Postini is for. Backupify sounds almost too good to be true ;-) As you use them – is there any catch, or something one should be aware of before choosing them as a backup provider?

]]> By: Vijay Thakur (develpment team member) http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-605620 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:34:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-605620 Hello All,
I am one of the developer team member and would say that in order to prevent the loss such as Gmail disruption or Gmail outage, we all must have to have regular gmail backup.
And for having backup there is a simple tool available known as Beyond Inbox, which lets you enable to have email backup of Gmail account.
See the link-
http://www.beyondinbox.com/documentation/mail-backup–how-to-backup-emails-from-imap-account.html

]]> By: flippertie http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-605579 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:21:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-605579 Must admit I’ve never needed to try it but when I first looked at it the process to restore a mail archive to gmail seemed simple enough:

Choose restore, pick a mail archive, choose to restore to an imap mailbox, give it the gmail/google apps account and server details, press ‘go’.

Given the positive reviews of mailstore and my experience with it so far I’m ready to assume that it will work as advertised (though you know what they say about assuming… ;-)

As a fall-back I also use Backupify, which is a cloud based, set-and-forget solution. I figure that Gmail is reliable, I have a local copy and one in the cloud. That’s more levels of insurance than I have on my home…..

]]> By: Ondrej http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-605476 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:24:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-605476 Just to make sure. This creates an archive, not a backup that can be restored to Gmail, right? Or is there a way to upload it back to Gmail?

]]> By: flippertie http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-605224 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:27:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-605224 They have free and paid versions. Free should be enough for most people. it has some limitations like only remembering 3 outlook profiles, and not allowing you to open a PST file that isn’t one that Outlook is set to open. But these are easily overcome and it seems to work well.

]]> By: Rey http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-604886 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:25:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-604886 Is MailStore free?

]]> By: flippertie http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-604802 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:32:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-604802 Well the words are English – but I have no idea what you’re asking….

]]> By: Anthony http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-604233 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:32:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-604233 we’ll l see my e-mail is not up just, So how would it be for it come
back.

]]> By: utecht http://gigaom.com/2011/03/02/how-i-back-up-my-gmail-account/#comment-604133 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:02:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=304054#comment-604133 Some new information about Google mail and MailStore:
http://blog.mailstore.com/en/2011/03/03/googles-2-step-authentication-and-what-it-means-to-mailstore/

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