Guide | How To Back up Gmail to a local drive

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I was googling on how to backup gmail and I found this and I must say it works like a charm!


Although many people are comfortable keeping data only in the cloud, I'm not one of them. I'm sure that Google backs up regularly, and keeps my data on multiple servers. But I still feel better keeping a local copy of my own.

But how do you do that?

The obvious solution is to use POP or IMAP to access your mail through a local mail client--such as Outlook. But that won't back up all the messages you've stored in Gmail over past years.

That's why I'm recommending Gmail Backup. This free program hasn't been updated in nearly three years, but it still works fine.

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McLovin said:
Ha, that is what I currently do, I use Outlook for all emails now, which can be a good thing.

I am fine with gmail, works great and has plenty of storage
 

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