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Why would you want to back up Gmail? I bet Google already backs it up, at different geographical locations even I dare say. Just in case... well, in case of wha

by arketyp 17y ago

Why would you want to back up Gmail? I bet Google already backs it up, at different geographical locations even I dare say. Just in case... well, in case of what exactly? A fire? Earthquake? In case they decide to delete your mail account? This must be one of those things that belong to the paranoid hacker stereotype.

lutorm 17y ago
In case Google decides to lock me out? There are plenty of stories of people who were locked out from various google accounts without warning and without being able to contact anyone about it. The probability may be small, but the impact of losing all your email, at least for me, is enough that some insurance is warranted.
mbrubeck 17y ago
In case you want to look up something critical (airline flight information?) when there happens to be a 30-minute GMail outage? In case you want to take your data with you when you migrate to a different service? In case you want an archive of your correspondence that will live on even if Google goes out of business decades from now? In case you want to keep snapshots of your mail folders and be able to compare them, to see when a message arrived or was moved or deleted? So you can access your entire mail archive when you're offline?
spooneybarger 17y ago
i'll give you two: 1. i can do local snapshots and go back and get mail that i've deleted etc. yes i actually like to delete rather than archive mail. 2. some people have actually had google lose their mail. i am one of those people, i had a gmail account 3 years ago that all the mail disappeared from. why? i don't know. maybe it was broken into and someone deleted it all. maybe google had an issue ( o lord forbid that would ever happen ) and my mail went poof. i contacted google and got nowhere. so ya, maybe i'm paranoid. but i think of it as just being safe at this point.

by arketyp 17y ago

lutorm 17y ago

In case Google decides to lock me out? There are plenty of stories of people who were locked out from various google accounts without warning and without being able to contact anyone about it. The probability may be small, but the impact of losing all your email, at least for me, is enough that some insurance is warranted.

mbrubeck 17y ago

In case you want to look up something critical (airline flight information?) when there happens to be a 30-minute GMail outage? In case you want to take your data with you when you migrate to a different service? In case you want an archive of your correspondence that will live on even if Google goes out of business decades from now? In case you want to keep snapshots of your mail folders and be able to compare them, to see when a message arrived or was moved or deleted? So you can access your entire mail archive when you're offline?

spooneybarger 17y ago

i'll give you two: 1. i can do local snapshots and go back and get mail that i've deleted etc. yes i actually like to delete rather than archive mail. 2. some people have actually had google lose their mail. i am one of those people, i had a gmail account 3 years ago that all the mail disappeared from. why? i don't know. maybe it was broken into and someone deleted it all. maybe google had an issue ( o lord forbid that would ever happen ) and my mail went poof. i contacted google and got nowhere. so ya, maybe i'm paranoid. but i think of it as just being safe at this point.