Archiving Gmail to HD

clemkonan · 7 Mar 2010, 04:00 AM

Do I need to or should I be archiving my GMail to my HD so nothing is lost and if so how is this done?
Thanks

drew · 7 Mar 2010, 09:42 PM

I should not answer because I know too little about such.

But I would look at what kind of long term stability there is for different email clients.

Can their archives be read even if the developer stop supporting them. Can they be imported later into other email client programs. Even consider if it can be done from linux in case you stop using the OS you ahve now?

Then by having an email client doing a local copy of the important emails and then you also have those also sent forward to another account to be sure there is some redundancy involved if the HDD crash.

mikedk · 7 Mar 2010, 11:49 PM

Also, you can check this site out:

http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

jeffster · 14 Mar 2010, 05:03 AM

I would suggest using"Gmail Back Up", a small free program, available here :

http://www.gmail-backup.com/gmail-backup-0107

I have just successfully used it to not only back up my old gmail account, but also to restore the contents of that account to my new google apps account, as I recently switched from using a well known email provider to google apps for my domain.

Although I was happy with my chosen host, it smply cannot beat google apps cost of free

7 Mar 2010, 04:00 AM	#1
clemkonan Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2	Archiving Gmail to HD Do I need to or should I be archiving my GMail to my HD so nothing is lost and if so how is this done? Thanks

7 Mar 2010, 09:42 PM	#2
drew The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,626	I should not answer because I know too little about such. But I would look at what kind of long term stability there is for different email clients. Can their archives be read even if the developer stop supporting them. Can they be imported later into other email client programs. Even consider if it can be done from linux in case you stop using the OS you ahve now? Then by having an email client doing a local copy of the important emails and then you also have those also sent forward to another account to be sure there is some redundancy involved if the HDD crash.

7 Mar 2010, 11:49 PM	#3
mikedk Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Ireland Posts: 516	Also, you can check this site out: http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

14 Mar 2010, 05:03 AM	#4
jeffster Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bristol, England Posts: 70	I would suggest using"Gmail Back Up", a small free program, available here : http://www.gmail-backup.com/gmail-backup-0107 I have just successfully used it to not only back up my old gmail account, but also to restore the contents of that account to my new google apps account, as I recently switched from using a well known email provider to google apps for my domain. Although I was happy with my chosen host, it smply cannot beat google apps cost of free