I use IMAP clients on all my computers to access gmail so they inherently have a local backup. Then at the beginning of each month I go to Google Takeout - htt

I use IMAP clients on all my computers to access gmail so they inherently have a local backup. Then at the beginning of each month I go to Google Takeout - https://www.google.com/settings/takeout https://www.google.com/settings/takeout - to download all my Google stuff and add it to a backup that ends up in Dropbox. (I should also add that I run my own domain and email so gmail is just a backup account.) However on checking takeout it turns out the one thing they don't provide is gmail! 8 of the 15 items backed up are related to Google+ though.