How to backup Gmail data?

For a long time, Google's email service - Gmail has become extremely familiar and close to individual users and businesses. Just 1 account of Google that you can use all the services included YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus . So if you want to backup emails in your Gmail account, how? In the article below, TipsMake.com will introduce you to manipulate to backup and backup Gmail on your computer.

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1. Backup Gmail directly:

First, log into your Gmail account on your browser, open Settings , select Forwarding and POP / IMAP tab and select Enable POP for all mail , then click Save Change to save changes:

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By default, when we have not enabled this POP / IMAP support feature of Google, the email client programs will not be able to download and download Gmail to the computer. Enabling POP / IMAP will allow mail data. , email from Gmail is forwarded to the computer, via that email client. How to configure on the email client, we will present in another article.

2. Use Google Takeout:

To proceed, you access Google Takeout, select the data to backup and click Next:

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Here I want to back up Gmail, so just select Mail

There will be some options for us like:

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File type : backup file format, compressed in different formats such as * .zip, * .tgz and * .tbz
Delivery method: how to backup, can send download link to Gmail or save directly to Google Drive .

Depending on the number of your email, this process will be fast or slow. When completed, Google will display a message in your inbox.

3. Use the Gmail Backup utility:

This is free software, compact size, runs well on Windows operating system.

Download Gmail Backup for free

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The interface of the program is very simple, you just need to fill in the username (must be full, including @ gmail.com), the password, the time you want to backup, select the archive folder and press the Backup button is okay.

Note some issues when using Gmail Backup:

Due to many changes of Google, maybe we will get errors when using Gmail Backup:

Error failed to login: if your Gmail account protected with 2 layers of passwords, remove the OTP authentication class.
Since Gmail account has not turned on POP / IMAP: follow the instructions in the way 1 to enable this feature.
Or finally, Gmail blocks login for non-Google programs, in which case you can switch to using either 1 or 2.

Good luck!

Marvin Fry

Update 25 May 2019

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