We all recognize back-ups are important, yet we rarely think about backing up our e-mail. GMVault can immediately support your Gmail to your computer and even restore the emails to an additional Gmail account– convenient when switching Gmail addresses.

We’ve likewise covered using Thunderbird to back up your online email account, yet GMVault has a few benefits, including its integrated restore function and easy integration with the Windows Task Scheduler.

Gmail Setup

You’ll have to alter a few setups in Gmail prior to you start. First, on the Forwarding and also POP/IMAP tab in your Gmail account’s settings page, ensure IMAP is enabled.

On the Labels pane, make sure the all labels are readied to Show in IMAP. Any kind of labels that aren’t noticeable in IMAP won’t be backed up.

GMVault Setup

Download as well as mount GMVault from GMVault’s internet site. Once it’s installed, you can introduce GMVault from the gmvault-shell faster way on your desktop computer or Start menu.

GMVault does not provide a graphical user interface, but using it is very easy.

To begin syncing an account’s e-mails to your computer, type the following command right into the GMVault window, where account@gmail.com is your Gmail account address:

gmvault sync account@gmail.com!.?.! Ensure you’re logged into

the Gmail account you specified in your default web browser as well as press Enter. GMVault will certainly ask for an OAuth token– click the

Grant gain access to switch to proceed and allow GMVault accessibility to your e-mail account. Go back to the GMVault home window, press

Enter, and also GMVault will immediately support your e-mails to your computer. Upgrading and also Restoring Backups To update your

backup in the future

, just run the same command once more: gmvault sync account@gmail.com!.?.! You can likewise use the- t quick

alternative– when you utilize this option, GMVault

will just look for brand-new emails, deletions, or modifications from the previous week. This makes carrying out a backup much faster. gmvault sync-t quick account@gmail.com!.?.! If you intend to recover your Gmail to another Gmail account in the future, run the adhering to command: gmvault bring back newaccount@gmail.com!.?.! Your verification qualifications are stored in the C: Users NAME . gmvault folder, while your e-mail back-ups are saved in the C:

Users NAME gmvault-db folder. You can back up the gmvault-db folder to develop one more back-up of your emails. Creating a Scheduled Backup You can now run the above commands to quickly upgrade your back-up. Nevertheless, if you wish to do routine backups without thinking about it, you can produce a set up

job that instantly backs up your email. Initially, open the Task Scheduler by typing Task Scheduler into your Start menu and also pressing Enter. Click the Create Basic Task link at the appropriate side of the home window. Name your job as well as set the trigger to Daily.

Set the job to run every one days or every couple of days, whichever you such as. (Note that GMVault’s -t quick choice just inspects the previous week of email by default, so you’ll intend to have this task

go for the very least as soon as a week.) On the Action pane, select Start a Program and also browse to the gmvault.bat documents. By default, this data is installed to the following place: C: Users NAME AppData Local gmvault gmvault.bat In the Add arguments box, add the following arguments, replacing account@gmail.com with

your Gmail address: sync-t fast account@gmail.com!.?.! To validate that your arranged task is working appropriately, you can right-click it in the Task Scheduler window

as well as pick Run. The GMVault window will certainly show up and also perform a back-up. GMVault will certainly currently immediately update your back up with brand-new e-mails and modifications on the timetable you defined. If you wish to

be sure no e-mails or other adjustments are

missed, you can run a complete backup command(without the-t fast alternative )sometimes.