Back That Gmail Up
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Back That Gmail Up
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Re: Back That Gmail Up
#2Another good one is http://gmvault.org. I used this just recently to backup and transfer all of my Google Apps emails to a separate gmail account since I'm transferring my apps domain to a different provider. Going just off of what the article says about BaGoMa, Gmvault seems to be comparable in features.
Re: Back That Gmail Up
#3Another good one is http://gmvault.org . I used this just recently to backup and transfer all of my Google Apps emails to a separate gmail account since I'm transferring my apps domain to a different provider. Going just off of what the article says about BaGoMa, Gmvault seems to be comparable in features.
From a quick glance Gmvault looks preferable from a security standpoint as your credentials get saved in ~/.gmvault rather than being passed as a command-line argument, which could be viewed by any user on the system.
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#4https://www.backupify.com/ is a pretty good alternative as well
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#5My main problem with this is that it would require me to store my password, in clear text, in a shell script.
I'm no security expert but that raises a red flag for me. I'd rather have some way of entering my password each time I want to back up, but this would also make the cron process impossible.
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#6My Mac app, CloudPull, does something similar. CloudPull backs up Google Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Drive (formery Docs) and Reader to your Mac. http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/
CloudPull stores your password securely in the Mac OS X keychain.
Re: Back That Gmail Up
#7Another good one is http://gmvault.org . I used this just recently to backup and transfer all of my Google Apps emails to a separate gmail account since I'm transferring my apps domain to a different provider. Going just off of what the article says about BaGoMa, Gmvault seems to be comparable in features.
From a quick glance Gmvault looks preferable from a security standpoint as your credentials get saved in ~/.gmvault rather than being passed as a command-line argument, which could be viewed by any user on the system.
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Re: Back That Gmail Up
#8My main problem with this is that it would require me to store my password, in clear text, in a shell script. I'm no security expert but that raises a red flag for me. I'd rather have some way of entering my password each time I want to back up, but this would also make the cron process impossible.
See gmvault as mentioned in the comments here, it just saves an oauth token. Still can be used to access your mail but at least it can be easily revoked and isn't your clear text password.
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#9My main problem with this is that it would require me to store my password, in clear text, in a shell script. I'm no security expert but that raises a red flag for me. I'd rather have some way of entering my password each time I want to back up, but this would also make the cron process impossible.
Just chmod the shell script to 700, so that only your account can read it, together with an encrypted HDD that should be quite save.
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#10This may be a naive question, but why is it not enough to set your mail client to save a copy of all messages?