Gmail Keeper Software for Gmail BackupGmail Keeper v1.3.5 makes it easier to backup Gmail accounts with large amount of emails
There are 3 enhancements has been made to Gmail Keeper to make dealing Gmail/Apps accounts that have large amount of emails/labels easier.
- Duplicate backup profile settings. You can now duplicate an existing profile so that you don’t need to re-input information such as login info when setting up similar backup profiles.
- Show size info for each Gmail folders and Gmail labels. Now in the backup profile setup window you can see the total size of each Gmail folders/labels, with this size info being displayed you can easily to determine how to setup your Gmail backup profiles for an account with large amount of emails.
- The Gmail folder list and Gmail label list can now be enlarged. You can now enlarge the height of the backup profile setup window, as a result, the folder and label lists will be enlarged, this makes it easier to deal with large amount of labels.
What’s Gmail Keeper?
Gmail Keeper is a one-click email and label backup software for Gmail and Google apps accounts, with Gmail Keeper you can simply schedule your backup profiles and then forget about it. Creating local Gmail backup has never been easier.
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New screenshot for the Gmail backup profile settings window:
Start gmail backup from command line or system scheduler – Gmail Keeper V1.3.4.251
We have just added command line support to Gmail Keeper – our lightweight and easy Gmail and Google Apps email backup software, this means that you can now start a gmail backup from other programs, or schedule your gmail backup tasks with the system scheduler, or just create a batch file to call Gmail Keeper to start backup your backup profile set up for your Google Apps email account.
Command line options supported:
- “profile name”. The profile you want to start backup.
- /Q. Quit Gmail Keeper once the backup is completed successfully.
- /SILENT. Don’t show Gmail Keeper main window when starting the program.
While the above described command line switch are quite simple and easy, Gmail Keeper makes it even easier by allowing you to generate the command line with a helper window, try right click the desired backup profile and select ‘Generate Command Line’, a window look like the following one will appear, you can setup your options easily and Gmail Keeper will generate the command line for you.
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Paid customers can also download their full version, contact us if you don’t’ have the information needed.
Backup Gmail contacts?
We are planning to add the Gmail contacts backup function to Gmail Keeper, do you have such a requirement? If yes, what format do you prefer to use for storing your Gmail contacts in your local PC?
Any comments will be welcomed.
For manual Gmail contacts backup or Google Apps contacts backup, you can check this how-to tutorial.
Automated Gmail backup via IMAP
In this post I’ll tell you a little about the internal of Gmail Keeper.
One of the interfaces Gmail Keeper uses to backup emails from your Gmail account is the IMAP interface, without this IMAP protocol being supported by Gmail server in addition to pop3, it’s not possible to backup both the emails and labels, because the POP3 protocol allows you access the inbox only, but through IMAP you can read all folders and labels in your Gmail account.
There are other programs you can use to backup Gmail using the IMAP , such as the open source mail client Thunderbird, the Microsoft Outlook, etc. So you might want to ask why Gmail Keeper? Well, those software are not designed for the backup purpose. So I think there are at least several reasons why Gmail Keeper is better for this purpose:
- Automated backup. You can schedule the backup jobs to run on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
- You can better organize your backup data for the purpose of archiving.
- Gmail Keeper is lightweight and fast.
Of course, I have to mentioned the open source gmail-backup.com that also uses the IMAP interface, to avoid other people criticize me being biased, I’m not going to compare it with Gmail Keeper here, you can check it out and you will have your idea 