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How to download data from google account when you run out of space?
I run out of space on google (used 14.5GB of 15GB). This means like 9GB of photos and 5 GB of email attachments. I want to download everything and then clean the cloud. I realized google does not ...
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Emailing 13MB base64 creates extra 19MB .com
My daily backup script had to be changed to create base64 file instead of regular .tar.gz a while ago:
Filename64="$Filename".64
cat "$Filename" | base64 > "$Filename64"
echo -e "to: $EmailAddr\...
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Why is the size of GMVault backup significantly smaller than size of gmail storage? [closed]
I just discovered GMVault and did a sync with my Gmail account. I am pleased by the tool, but I am curious to know the answer to the title of this question.
After doing a gmvault sync -t full --...
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Backup an inactive gmail account from Mail.app?
I have an gmail account that I've had working with Mail.app via IMAP for years (now on High Sierra). I no longer have access to the gmail account, but I have all the email locally on my machine. I'm ...
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Thunderbird: how to back up everything, including attachments
I want to create a backup snapshot of everything I have on Gmail (preferably including Contacts), in a form that is later browseable by Thunderbird. This should also include all attachments. The ...
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Any reason to backup gmail? [closed]
My apologies if this question doesn't particularly fit here.
I figure some quick context to the question helps.
My Dad is a self employed insurance broker and has a home office. He's a proficient ...
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How to backup Gmail Account onto a hard drive?
I need to backup all the emails of my Gmail account on my hard drive. My Gmail is almost full and I need to clear all the data, but first I need to do a backup so that I can recover the emails later ...
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Google Drive - large frequently modified files
I'm currently exploring the possibility of using Google Drive to automate backup of local files as I am already a paying customer with lots of free storage. I'm currently using Google Apps Email and ...
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Gmvault: How to skip specific mail during restore
I have an issue with restoring a large gmail backup which I created using Gmvault.
Unfortunately, neither the author nor the google group of Gmvault replied to my issue, so maybe one of you guys ran ...
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Accessing gmail folders with mbsync
I am trying to create a replica of the "[Google Mail]/All Mail" folder in my gmail account using mbsync. Using Pattern * in the rc-file mbsync can see all the folders (lables) that I have created and ...
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Best Practices for Email Backup [closed]
I was hoping that I could get some recommendations for permanent email backup practices that would help keep our users with high data counts from getting out of hand.
Some background: I maintain ...
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How to make an encrypted Gmail backup on my VPS? [closed]
I'm using offlineimap to backup my Gmail on my VPS, in case Gmail might go down, get hacked or anything else might happen. I want to be able to do the following:
Have a recent backup of all my Gmail ...
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Google Apps Backup Mail Accounts
We are currently using Google Apps for Business with 10 users, however yesterday a member managed to delete all their emails.
Is there any free option in order to backup all emails?
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getmail does not keep track of downloaded emails if process is killed
I am using getmail to archive my Gmail account's inbox. However, every once in a while the process hangs -- probably due to a bad connection with Gmail's IMAP servers. I find that the only way to ...
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Backup "sent mail" folder from gmail to ubuntu
I use gmail, but would like to have a local backup (on a ubuntu machine) of the emails as well.
(I do not need two way synchronisation or anything like that, just backup)
I already back up all ...
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