Sure, Gmail offers more storage space than nearly everyone else out there. It’s as if these folks manufacture free space on a daily basis, which is handy for those of use who use it for all of our email needs.
But maybe you want to back it all up safely. You could use POP or IMAP and download it to your hard drive, but that takes forever – and you risk losing the data if your hard drive crashes.
Now Business Hacks points us to Gmail Backup, a free tool that downloads all your Gmail mail to your PC, complete with attachments. You get offline access to your Gmail, local backup, and can easily upload mail to another Gmail account.
All versions of Gmail Backup are available free of charge.
Excellent utility. I think that the days of having your email tied to one computer are over. I use Gmail and access 4 computers and my Blackberry simultaneously using Gmail. By contrast, my wife use traditional email run through Outlook. She uses a wireless synch to read emails on her wireless phone but she has to copy all messages sent by the wireless device to her self so she’ll have a copy back at the office. I use multiple Gmail accounts and a Firefox plugin to change quickly from one to the other. Have the capability to back up Gmail eliminates one of the few issues I have with the service – thanks for posting about this backup service.
jcg
Excellent utility. I think that the days of having your email tied to one computer are over. I use Gmail and access 4 computers and my Blackberry simultaneously using Gmail. By contrast, my wife use traditional email run through Outlook. She uses a wireless synch to read emails on her wireless phone but she has to copy all messages sent by the wireless device to her self so she'll have a copy back at the office. I use multiple Gmail accounts and a Firefox plugin to change quickly from one to the other. Have the capability to back up Gmail eliminates one of the few issues I have with the service – thanks for posting about this backup service.
jcg