#GMAIL BACKUP RESTORE HOW TO#

How to use the Google backup utility (Google Takeout) to back up your Gmail. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to back up Gmail. Important to make sure that data isn't lost.Īre several ways to back up Gmail emails, but many Gmail users don't understand Losing that information could be quite costly. Many of us keep business information in our Gmail emailĪccounts. If that happens, you'll want to have a good Gmail backup. Looking for account weaknesses, it's possible that your email account couldīecome compromised. Will restore /backup/emails-db in -resume or -restart to restart from the last fatal error and not reupload once more the already treated emails.Never been more important to back up Gmail emails. $>gmvault restore restore $HOME/gmvault-db (or %HOME%/gmvault-db for Win) in restore -d /backup/emails-db Use -d DB_DIR, -db-dir DB_DIR to change the location of your local email repository Restore your emails in a Gmail account $>gmvault sync -t quick are backed up in $HOME/gmvault-db (or %HOME%/gmvault-db for Win) by default. Your password will be stored encrypted but please avoid using this option if possible.

By default your password is not saved, but you can use the option to do it. You will then enter an interactive session to enter your password. The following example uses XOAuth to access sync the -passwd option, you can use your gmail login and password for a quick test or if you cannot use XOAuth. After the first authentication for a given account, the XOAuth token is stored in $HOME/.gmvault and will be used for subsequent authentications. The XOAuth authentication is the recommended way to access your account. Gmvault allow users to use a XOAuth token or your gmail login password. It tries to set all the necessary defaults to be self explanatory. Gmvault is a user-frendly command-line tool.

#GMAIL BACKUP RESTORE INSTALL#

Python setup.py install Install from PyPi Untar the binary tarball distribution and go to the GMVAULT_HOME/bin dir to launch gmvault. Go to the gmvault 2 mins start to learn how to pilot gmvault. The shell sets the environment so you can seamlessly launch gmvault. Once installed launch gmvault-shell.bat (there should be a shortcut on your desktop).

#GMAIL BACKUP RESTORE SOFTWARE#

You can also install the software from the source from (/gaubert/gmvault). You can download one of the 'binary' distribution from ( ) for the platform of your choice.

Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published.

Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.

Fork the reporsitory on Github to start making your changes to the master branch (or branch off of it).

There will be a Contributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.

Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.

Gmvault is open source and under GNU-AGPL-3.0.įor further info go ( ) Contribute Gmvault is a tool for backing up your gmail account and never lose email correspondence. Gmvault: Backup and restore your gmail account

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