[ExI] META: Webmail backup freeware

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 01:43:35 UTC 2009


2009/7/9 Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>:
> 2009/7/9 Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com>:
>
>> It'd be nice if there was an online alternative; somewhere you could
>> sign up, point it at your gmail etc, and it'd periodically backup to
>> some different online space. Ideally the whole thing would work
>> without you doing anything else from that point forth (it'd just be
>> online services talking to each other), and it would be as close as
>> possible to free :-)
>
> Am I naive in assuming that Google manages their computer system so
> that I don't need to worry about additional backup?
>
>
> --
> Stathis Papaioannou

I think people's concern with backup here is that google might fall
over or discontinue gmail without warning. It seems unlikely now, but
these things do happen.

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