How To Protect Your Account Contents

How To Protect Your Account Contents

As some people learn, even when a compromised account is recovered sometimes the hacker has deleted the e-mail history and/or the contacts. Unless you have backed up that information to your local computer, it may well be lost forever.

There are several ways to backup a Gmail account and a number of tools to help you. Perhaps the most appropriate for Gmail the free utility http://code.google.com/p/got-your-back/ which supports backup and restore of both Gmail and Google Apps account with full support for labels and the ability to be run as an automated scheduled task. It stores the files on your local computer so they can be include in your normal  computer backup ,

The following article provides a lot more detail about doing backups and other tools that are available: http://gmail-tips.blogspot.com/2012/01/gmail-backup.html