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Whilst it might not be of help to OP, I suggest everyone else to do a data export for all your important services every once in a while and save it with your ot

by krono 4y ago

Whilst it might not be of help to OP, I suggest everyone else to do a data export for all your important services every once in a while and save it with your other backups. https://takeout.google.com https://takeout.google.com https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/download-data https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/download-data

hu3 4y ago
Is there something like this for Apple?
- theCrowing 4y ago
  https://privacy.apple.com/ https://privacy.apple.com/
hanklazard 4y ago
For sure. I believe I have this set to create an export and notify me the backup every quarter or so. Not the perfect solution, but until I do the right thing and switch over to fastmail, this at least ensures I can only lose a few months (gulp) worth of email.
- grepfru_it 4y ago
  Having lost a few months of email when my mail server crashed, it’s something you whine about for a day or two but then it’s business as usual. As with all insurance you pay for what you want to risk. It didn’t hurt me much but I still went to daily offsite backups for my mailserver. The biggest gripe was standing up a new mailserver, make sure you keep your software up to date yall
- sneak 4y ago
  You can move your old emails off of your current email provider at any time even without changing any email settings or where new mails go. It always seemed silly to me to have the server where your new mails get delivered be the same server as where your email archive lives.
- edmundsauto 4y ago
  The part that keeps me up at night - the last few months are likely the majority of emails I care about. So I might recover 99% of past emails, but only get 25% of the value -- recency matters.
  - hanklazard 4y ago
    Yeah, I think this is a great point. My goal is to get my email on a domain I control in the next few months.
grvdrm 4y ago
Interesting idea - follow up question: where/how do you back it up? Looking forward to hearing about your whole system.
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by krono 4y ago

hu3 4y ago

Is there something like this for Apple?

theCrowing 4y ago
https://privacy.apple.com/ https://privacy.apple.com/

hanklazard 4y ago

For sure. I believe I have this set to create an export and notify me the backup every quarter or so. Not the perfect solution, but until I do the right thing and switch over to fastmail, this at least ensures I can only lose a few months (gulp) worth of email.

grepfru_it 4y ago
Having lost a few months of email when my mail server crashed, it’s something you whine about for a day or two but then it’s business as usual. As with all insurance you pay for what you want to risk. It didn’t hurt me much but I still went to daily offsite backups for my mailserver. The biggest gripe was standing up a new mailserver, make sure you keep your software up to date yall
sneak 4y ago
You can move your old emails off of your current email provider at any time even without changing any email settings or where new mails go. It always seemed silly to me to have the server where your new mails get delivered be the same server as where your email archive lives.
edmundsauto 4y ago
The part that keeps me up at night - the last few months are likely the majority of emails I care about. So I might recover 99% of past emails, but only get 25% of the value -- recency matters.
- hanklazard 4y ago
  Yeah, I think this is a great point. My goal is to get my email on a domain I control in the next few months.

grvdrm 4y ago

Interesting idea - follow up question: where/how do you back it up? Looking forward to hearing about your whole system.

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