How to Easily Backup Your Gmail Account and Emails
Backing up your Gmail account is one of the most important things you could do to your Gmail account. With hackers constantly on the lookout for weak accounts to penetrate and use for their malicious acts, it is very important to back up your Gmail account.
This is even more necessary when you use your Gmail account for business and other confidential purposes. It is possible to lose your messages and the other information on your Gmail account at some point in time but if you have backed up your account and emails, all your messages and information will be safely stored on the cloud for you to access.
Gmail is one of the most used email platforms in the world. As a subsidiary of Google, and a requirement for services like YouTube, it is no wonder a surprise that Gmail is patronized by many people all over the world.
In this guide, I am going to show you how to easily backup your Gmail account and emails. Not only is Gmail used for sending and receiving emails, but it is also useful when creating accounts on many services like Google AdSense, YouTube, Google Analytics, and a list of other services patronized by mostly digital content curators and creators.
How To Easily Backup Your Gmail Account and Emails
There are several ways you can backup your Gmail account and emails. Some of the methods are free and the others are not free. You can begin with the free packages and then proceed to the paid ones if you prefer them to the free ones.
How To Easily Backup Your Gmail Account and Emails by Downloading Your Gmail Messages
By default, Google has a service that allows users to back up their Gmail account by exporting and downloading the data to your computer. First, your messages will be compressed into a zip file which could easily be downloaded.
- Open a browser on your computer and log into your account
- Head over to the Data and Personalization area
- Scroll down to Download or delete your data
- Click on Download your data
- You will be automatically directed to the Google Takeout page
- Check the box next to Gmail and any other apps you want to back up under Select data to include
- For services with the Multiple formats button, click on it to choose the format in which your data will be downloaded
- Next, click on the Next step
- Click the arrow below Delivery method to see the options available to save your data (an email with the download link, add it to your Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Box)
- Choose whether you want to export it just once or every two (2) months
- Select the type of file and the maximum file size. If the size exceeds your maximum file size, the data will be divided into two (2)
- Click on Create export after you have done your selections
How To Easily Backup Your Gmail Account and Emails by Syncing Your Gmail to a Local Email Client
Whether you are using a google mail client or otherwise, you can synchronize your Gmail account with almost any other email client. This could be Outlook, Thunderbird, Mailbird, etc. This way, all your emails will be downloaded to this email client together with your main Gmail account.
With this method, even if you don’t use the other email client frequently your Gmail messages are still secured. In case something happens to your account, you should be able to access a version of your account.
How To Easily Backup Your Gmail Account and Emails Using a Third-Party Gmail Archiver
After trying all the other methods and you are still not convinced, you can use a third-party Gmail archiver. Some of these are free (Gmvault) and the others are paid (Backupify, Mail Archiver X) and they allow you to backup all your current Gmail messages.
These services are developed by third-party apps and most of them are automatic. This means that when you lose your data, they have the recent version in a vault for you to access. Before choosing any of the third-party software, make sure to read about them and read reviews from the people who have used the software before.
Conclusion
Getting money in this modern era is very difficult and so paying for a service to automatically back up your Gmail account although useful can be a little difficult. Therefore, if you wish to use the free methods, then you must regularly back up your Gmail account, ideally once a month.
It is not common for someone to lose their Gmail account and emails but still backing up your data is a good and safe move to make. To prevent the occurrence of losing your Gmail account, you must make sure that you regularly change your Gmail password and perform regular security checks on your account to be on the safer side.
Yes, you can export and download all your data from Gmail, including your emails. Unless the email has been deleted.
There are several ways you can go about this. In this article, some of the most effective methods have been listed. Once you go through them you should be able to backup and restore your emails in Gmail.
Emails provided by companies and institutions are not generally private. Therefore, your supervisor can see all the emails you send and receive through them.
