HOW TO BACKUP GMAIL ACCOUNT

Gmail is the fastest growing email service and has one of the best Spam filters and clean interface for navigation. There are lots of features like Gmail Preview Pane and Additional Chat Emotions which are not enabled by default but you can activate them from Gmail Labs.

A lot of information sent over email these days can be very important, such as account and password information, bank statements, university grades, business reports, and general correspondence among friends and family. It's always possible, though, that any data you store on the Internet could get wiped out.

If you're worried about ever losing your emails to a similar glitch, it's probably a good idea to regularly backup your Gmail account.

There are numerous ways to backup your Gmail data and deciding which way to go will largely depend on the level of effort you want to put into it. You could simply setup Gmail to forward all your mails to another email account and call it a day, for instance. But there are also a handful of other options that offer a bit more flexibility and convenience.

USING AN DESKTOP CLIENT:

Configure your mail client following the steps below. Once your mail client is configured to download your email, remember to open it periodically to backup.

•     Log into Gmail and click on "Mail Settings" in the top right hand corner. This can be accessed from any Gmail page.

• Locate and click on the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. 

• Look under "POP Download". Select the first option, "Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)".

• Click on "Save Changes" at the bottom.

USING SOFTWARES:

BACKUPIFY 

This is a handy tool that automatically performs scheduled backups for a number of popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter and others. You won't have to put too much effort into the whole backup process -- just supply the login credentials of the sites you want backed up and Backupify takes care of the rest. Be aware though that you're essentially moving your info from one cloud to another.

The site offers both free and paid accounts with varying limitations, but given the recent Gmail blunder, Backupify is taking the opportunity to entice new users with a coupon code "savegmail" for a year of free backups with one of their premium plans, so there's really no reason for not giving it a shot.

GMAIL BACKUP:

Gmail Backup is a simple and easy-to-setup free alternative that does exactly what its name says. Upon installation, just type in your credentials and it will begin downloading all your e-mails, backing them up securely, and allowing you to restore them to your account should the unthinkable happen. The program is free and Windows-only.

Gmail keeper: 

Using this software it will back up Gmail messages or messages from a Google Apps Mail account as a .zip file to a local disk. It supports multiple accounts and even stores labels associated with each message, while those concerned about privacy can encrypt their mail and password protect it.

But this is an paid software so you have to pay $19.95 to get or you can use an free trial version of this software.

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