Re:G Suite Horror Story
by tempestn on Sunday August 05, 2018 @02:46AM
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Another option is to use a desktop email program like Thunderbird to download your gmail via IMAP. That way you can backup more frequently without having to download the entire archive. To make sure it downloads everything, you can switch to offline mode and have it download everything for offline viewing.
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Re:G Suite Horror Story
by albinowax_ on Sunday August 05, 2018 @04:39AM
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I do this with Thunderbird, but copy the emails to a local folder to keep my online inbox clear. I've done it for years and just yesterday it decided to delete my local inbox. Good times.
Wait. Were you able to get everything back, say from a backup?
And do you know why Thunderbird decided to do that?
Re:G Suite Horror Story
by albinowax_ on Sunday August 05, 2018 @01:25PM
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I have no idea what caused it. This happened during my backup process so I lost about a month worth of personal emails. Definitely a nuisance but i don't think I lost anything critical.
It looks like the offline backup process needs to be:
- Download emails with thunderbird (using IMAP so they aren't deleted online)
- Then backup the local emails
- Then finally delete them from the online folder
Or keep continuous, incremental backups of your local disk. IMO that's a good idea regardless to avoid losing stuff.
Personally I prefer to leave everything on gmail as well as the local backup though, so it's all searchable there.