For most of us Gmail account is precious virtual goods which we can’t afford to lose. It is a nightmare to even think of losing emails, chat conversations and important attachments stored in our Gmail account. Though you can always setup multiple Gmail/other email accounts and use it as backup of important emails by setting auto forward filters.
Gmvault is currently in beta mode, yet powerful tool with awesome features to not just backup your Gmail account emails but also offer the ability to restore, encrypt, sync your Gmail account. Gmvault is designed to support most popular platform such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and requires minimal efforts to setup backup and sync.
In order to get started you need to download Gmvault and Python 2.7.x or 2.6.x library. Once you finish installing Python and Gmvault, a shortcut to Gmvault will be placed on your desktop. Simply double click to launch Gmvault Shell.
Before you can begin setting up sync or backup, you have to authenticate and approve Gmvault access to your Gmail account. You can do this by entering the following command at Gmvault Shell.
If you are comfortable with providing password, then you can simply add –p flag and enter your password. However, it is advisable to use Gmail oAuth feature for security reason.
It is likely that many will be having Gmail account size in GBs , and you would wish to see how long it will take to complete backup of your Gmail Account. Thankfully Gmvault also displays the estimated time remaining to complete the backup. Since there is no GUI interface you would have to reply on different flags and commands offered by Gmvault to backup, restore, select a directory to save DB, sync etc.
You can also apply the label to current restore you are performing. Here is in dept
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