4 Quick, Easy And Free Ways To Take Backup Of Your Gmail Account

Google – one of the most trusted company, giant search engine and also known for producing great products and services. One of them is Gmail, one of the best and most popular email service offered by Google. But, you know everything is not flawless even Gmail too and we have seen evidence of such a flaw last weekend. I know most of you were not aware of what happen because there are chances that your Gmail was working absolutely fine. But you know there were some unlucky Gmail users whose accounts were all erased without any reason.

There were about 0.02 percent of all Gmail users or roughly 40,000 of the 200 million accounts were affected due to the “unexpected bug” that makes all their Gmail data including mails, contacts, calendars, events erased.

One of my friend was unlucky too because he was one of 0.02 percent of Gmail users. He came to me and told me about everything about Gmail data loss. At the same moment, I logged in my Gmail account and it was working fine. But, I noticed that my friend was not panicked at all even he had lost his all valuable data related to his work. Later, he told me that he is using Mozilla Thunderbird from quite a long time and each mail from starting of his account is saved offline.

Eventually, he received all Gmail data after two days by Google because they make backup of everything. Fortunately, Google had backup of all those accounts and thus they restored everyone’s data. But what would if Google wouldn’t have backup of your Google account? or What if someday it would erased forever and Google couldn’t something? And even you to haven’t take any backup of your Gmail account?

So, whats your take on above incidence? Do you think that it is necessary to take backup of Gmail account? Personally, I am in favor of taking backup of Gmail because other than this “unexpected bug” incidence anything can happen like :

1. Your Gmail account gets hacked but still you will be able to access all important emails and attachments.
2. Sometime, Gmail service goes down and you want to open very important email to read.
3. At time when you might have deleted an important mail from your Gmail inbox and trash too.

These times you can easily access your hacked Gmail account, access and retrieve your important mails even you have accidentally deleted it or Gmail service is down.

If you are a smart person and able enough to understand why is it important to back yo your Gmail messages and attachments? You should check our article where I am sharing 4 quick, easy and free ways to backup your Gmail Account and be worry free about losing it all again. If you know any other way around about taking backup of your Gmail account which is quick than the methods below, feel free to share with our readers in the comments section below.

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How to Backup Your Gmail Account Data Using Tools

1. Backupify : Backupify is a online service that allows you to take backup of your online accounts such as Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa and Flickr. You can sign up for free accounts that will let you take back up of up to 5 online accounts on 2GB storage. There are paid options also available with no storage limit.

You have to sign up for your Backupify account, choose Gmail option to back up your Gmail account. It will ask you to authenticate Backupify and give access to your Gmail archives. Mostly, they use public API for authenticating the service rather than storing your logins and passwords. After you grant access, they will copy your online to Amazon S3 system from where you can browse and download your backup anytime by login to your Backupify account.

All your email messages are stored in Amazon S3 cloud system as EML files that you can open and view in Microsoft outlook and there is a option to change .eml extension to .mht to make it readable in Internet Explorer. You can assign Backupify that how frequently it take backup of your Gmail account automatically and will take nearly 24 hours to get your initial backup setup. This service will regularly take backup until you choose to opt-out or delete it permanently.

2. Gmail Backup Tool : An older program for Windows XP, Vista and Linux that allows you to take backups of your Gmail account with attachements pretty straight forward in one-click solution. Just download the software from the link given, enter your Gmail account details, browse and specify local folder on your computer, set the dates “from this date to this date” of the backup and sit back while it will take backup of your Gmail account.

Well, please keep in mind that if you use Gmail labs, don’t forget to enable the IMAP access into the All Mails Folder. You can simply check this settings by clicking this link.  if you won’t enable IMAP access, the software will return a error stating “Unsupported language of GMail”.

Yeah, there is option that allows you to restore your backup online. Pretty neat, huh!

3. TrueSwitch For Hotmail : Damn, this service is marvelous. I know you most of you haven’t think of using Hotmail for years now. But, trust me this is the right time if you want to take backup of your Gmail account in a superbly easy way. Just sign up for a hotmail account if you haven’t one already. If you have Hotmail account already with you, just click on this link.You will be head towards TrueSwitch, an Hotmail’s web interface to transfer all your mails, contacts and calendar from your Gmail to Hotmail account.

Just enter your login details of Gmail account along with Hotmail ID and password, and this service wil copy all your Gmail data to your Hotmail ID. It will generally take up to 24 hours, but in my case it was done in the matter of few hours You don’t have to look the interface till your Backup is not done. Just sit back and let TrueSwitch do it task, you will get notified by email from Hotmail once your backup is complete.

After you transferred all your emails and other data, if you wish that Hotmail keep syncing with your Gmail account. You have to setup email forwarding in Gmail to your Hotmail ID. Just click on this link and look for “Forwarding”. Just next to it, you will find “Add a forwarding address”, click on it and enter your desired hotmail ID. You are done, now all your new mails after backup will be synced and you can check them in Hotmail anytime you want.

How To Backup Your Gmail Account Using Desktop Email Clients

4. Desktop Email Clients : If you are using any operating system whether Mac or Windows PC, you must have across Desktop Email Clients like Apple Mail for Mac, Windows Live Mail for Windows and Mozilla Thunderbird for both. Do you know, you can easily setup these email clients to fetch up all your Gmail account data and stored it safely.

We will use POP technique to import all your Gmail data in your preferred desktop email clients because IMAP is a two way communication from both the server and the client. It means if you read your mail in Gmail web interface, you cannot see in your desktop clients. But, in case of POP method, once your email is downloaded it will stay in inbox of your desktop email client. Let’s see how it works now :

1. Sign in to your Gmail account and open the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab from the settings page at the top of Gmail page or you can click this link to directly head towards the same page.

2. Select Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded). Don’t forget to enable this option and click on Save changes.

3. Now, open POP compatible email clients like Apple Mail, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.

4. You can check this Gmail’s link to check out a list of POP compatible email clients and its corresponding settings here.

5. Mostly, all the above clients take necessary Gmail settings itself by just entering your Gmail username and password. But, if there is any problem setting up your Gmail account, you can check out a list of POP compatible clients and its corresponding settings here.

Well, these are some of the best, easy and most of all free ways to take backup of your Gmail account and free from all your worries ever about losing your data. I would advice you to use at least 2 above ways to make double sure about Gmail data. Obviously, I understand how important it is to take your Gmail backup after Google thrash few days before.

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