Comments on: How to Backup your Gmail

By: Yosh

Yosh — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:52:13 +0000

Just wondering – now that it’s a year later is GmailKeeper looking any better?

By: W B McCarty

W B McCarty — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:03:17 +0000

I purchased GMail Keeper 36 hours ago. Within twelve hours, I had sent a message to support. I have heard nothing. My GMail is still not backed up. Meanwhile, I find a site offering the program for $10 US less than I paid on GMail Keeper’s home site.

Here are some of my woes. The download link I received was to an old version of the program stated on GMail Keeper’s blog to contain several errors fixed in the latest version. The program stalls trying to download headers. When I back off the configured number of headers in a batch by a factor of 4 from its default value, it downloads the messages. But, tagging them with the GMail labels fails. I don’t know why, because both dialog boxes that pop up are empty of text. Fit and finish is lacking. For instance, various dialog boxes and windows show what I suppose to be Chinese characters.

GMail Keeper has lots of little bugs and maybe some big ones. Frankly, the program seems unfinished and untested. I don’t think I could trust it even if it reported a successful backup. Not recommended at this time.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:27:21 +0000

LOL… print.

By: Frank McPherson

Frank McPherson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:58:42 +0000

I use Gmail offline mode on one of My PCs so that it gets a backup. I think I would send critical email to secondary services (Evernote, my Exchange account, etc..) but I don’t think I have too much critical email.

By: Gavin Miller

Gavin Miller — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:14:41 +0000

Some email accounts, like Yahoo mail for example, can be a pain in that the email is forwarded but not kept on the Yahoo server. It’s like forwarding a phone call, you only get the call on the phone you’ve forwarded to.

Gmail is OK though as it doesn’t do this, i.e. you get a copy of the email in both Gmail and the account you forwarded to.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:12:27 +0000

PRINT!! Yep, print every email out. You know there are people that do this…. including Aunt Edna! That said, I haven’t worried too much about my gmail so far, but I think I will go for a solution offering local storage with my probably archiving it to CD’s or DVD’s on a quarterly or so basis.

By: Neil Shorey

Neil Shorey — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:43:15 +0000

Hi, I’d like to point out our own service, SMEStorage.com, which allows the backup up of GMail to several clouds including Amazon S3, RackSpace Cloud Files, Box.net, MobileMe, or to any FTP server or WebDav enabled storage. We also enable the use of Gmail as a storage cloud if you wish to backup from any of these services to GMail. Lastly we have a premium feature called Cloud Sync which will keep clouds in sync either hourly or daily.

By: Lennart

Lennart — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:43:29 +0000

I go with option 1. I know that since Gears is available, an extra e-mail client is not really necessary anymore. But I still use Thunderbird on the side because that way I can easily store my e-mail on my local HDD. Thanks to IMAP it’s really simple. Most of the time, however, I use Gmail, Google Reader and Google Calendar in the browser. But if the webinterface goes down for some reason (just like a couple of weeks ago), I can switch to Thunderbird with Lightning and access my mail, my RSS-feeds and my calendar, as well.

By: Matt Brubeck

Matt Brubeck — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:25:51 +0000

Lifestream Backup (http://lifestreambackup.com/) is a very easy fire-and-forget backup service not just for GMail but for Google Docs, Facebook, Flickr, and other sites. However, their GMail support is still “beta” and only backs up the inbox folder, I believe.

Since I’ve linked to this twice now, I feel I should mention that I’m not affiliated with the company (just a happy customer).

By: car

car — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:13:11 +0000

very waste da